Railways Undercut Municipal Buses
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rUT-PR10E competition by British Railways with Southport Corporation's buses continues to irritate Mr. Jackson Hoggard, general manager of the
municipal transport undertaking. He refers in his annual report to the "somewhat remarkable scale of fares in Southport charged by British Railways."
Day-return fares from Chapel Street Station to four out of eight stations within the borough are actually less than the ordinary single rate. In two other cases they are the same.
"It is somewhat significant that on the last occasion of the revision of cheap day fares on the Southport-Liverpool and Southport-Preston lines, no alterations were made to the fares within the county borough of Southport," Mr. Hoggard observes.
He makes this comment in the context of a further huge loss in 1959" by the British Transport Commission.