New Coach Station for Leeds
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DES1GNED to serve the needs of more than 1m. passengers annually, the new coach station of Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust, Ltd., at 21 The Calls, Leeds, 2, was officially opened by Maj. F. S. Eastwood, chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, on Monday.
The new station, complete with waiting and refreshment rooms, can accommodate up to 55 coaches at any one time and will centralize all the company's Leeds departures. The Trust bought the site from Messrs. Hargreaves (West Riding), Ltd. It adjoins their former originating point, which accommodated only 15 vehicles and involved reversing. A building on the site has been .modernized and turned into staff offices.
Maj. Eastwood congratulated the company on a valuable aid towards relieving traffic congestion and adding to the city's transport facilities. ln 1956, he pointed out, Wallace Arnold carried more than lm. passengers from Leeds, or a minimum of 25,000 coach departures, which now took place from the bus station instead of the streets around The Calls and the Corn Exchange.