Possible Abstraction on Excursions Admitted

11th November 1955, Page 174

11th November 1955

Page 174

Page 174, 11th November 1955 — Possible Abstraction on Excursions Admitted

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DECISION was reserved by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority last week when the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Co., Ltd., applied for permission to run day excursions and tours to 10 destinations, including Blackpool and Morecambe Illuminations, and half-day and evening tours to nine destinations, from Rawmarsh, Swinton and Kilnhurst.

For the applicants, Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon said that at present the area from which it was proposed to run had no excursion and tour operator, and there was a large untapped demand for such facilities. In support he had 1,000 signatures.

Mr. D. R. Vernon, general manager of the company, said people in the area had to go to Rotherham if they wanted to join tours. For half-day excursions, people took the view that it was not worthwhile, particularly elderly people and those with young children.

If the application were granted, there 'F32 might be some slight abstraction of traffic from operators in Rotherham, but it would not affect them greatly, said Mr. Vernon. Mr. C. R. Dean, for Mr. C. Riley and Mr. W. Smart, the two Rotherham operators who objected, said there was an adequate service between Rawmarsh and Rotherham to connect with the excursions and this was no hardship to Rawmarsh people. There were no grounds for the application. Rotherham operators had always carried the Rawmarsh traffic and were still capable of handling it.

" In my submission, it is quite obvious that this Rawmarsh traffic is properly regarded, and had always been regarded by this Authority, as being in the Rotherham catchment area," he said.

Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for British Railways, who objected only to the Blackpool and Morecambe 'Illumination proposals, said there was . no evidence of demand put forward by the applicants, and the railways could cope adequately with the traffic to these destinations.