DECISION RESERVED IN RAILWAYS APPEAL
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THE . Transport Tribunal, in London last week, reserved its decision on a British Railways appeal against the North Western deputy Licensing Authority's grant of three articulated vehicles to a Preston company, for traffic between Southern Ireland and England.
For the railways, Mr. A. J. F. Wrottesley contended that a witness for the respondent company, Leinster Ferry Transport Ltd., had failed to disclose at the outset that company's connection with Northern Ireland Traders Ltd.
This failure to immediately disclose the overall control by Coast Lines Ltd. of all the companies involved rendered all the evidence suspect, said Mr. Wrottesley.
During the three-day hearing by the deputy Licensing Authority it emerged that the Leinster vehicles were to serve ferry services between Preston and Northern Ireland and Liverpool and Eire, continued Mr. Wrottesley. He contended that the grant was excessive and the verbal evidence of the company's witnesses had not established the claim.
For Leinster, Mr. J. Edward Jones said the Authority accepted witness evidence on the company's ramifications and did not adversely comment on it.
People had found railway facilities unsatisfactory, and road objectors had not sustained their statutory objections, added Mr. Jones.