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Mr. Stirk Indicts the Railways TYNESIDE BOARD NOT S TRIKING criticism

13th March 1936, Page 107
13th March 1936
Page 107
Page 107, 13th March 1936 — Mr. Stirk Indicts the Railways TYNESIDE BOARD NOT S TRIKING criticism
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of the L.N.E.R. train service from Nottingham to Skegness on Christmas Eve was made at Nottingham, last week, by Mr. J. H. Stirk, chairman of the East Midland Traffic Commissioners.

The criticism arose on an application by the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., for permission to increase its summer service to Skegness and to run a ser vice next Christmas. The L.N.E.R. Co. opposed the application. The applicant sought to prove that the facilities offered by the railway companies were not adequate, and called two employees to give evidence.

One of them travelled on the 7.41 p.m. train from Nottingham to Skegness on Christmas Eve. The train left 14 minutes late and arrived at Skegness at 12.55 a.m.-2 hours 4 minutes late. There were about 150 passengers on the train. At Grantham they were told to alight and cross the bridge to another platform. After a wait of exactly an hour they were told to cross the bridge once more to the original platform. The 6.3 p.m. train from Nottingham arrived 45 minutes late.

Mr: Stirk said that he himself was obliged to do some considerable travelling last Christmas, and he was thoroughly disgusted with the way the railway company—in this case the L.M.S.—handled the train in which he was travelling. " There appeared to be . no system whatever," said Mr. Stirk. He was four hours late at the

end of his journey. Something should be done by the tailways. to meet these complaints, which were regularly made.

"We Commissioners are getting very concereed as to .whether the railway companies are really fulfilling their obligations to the travelling public. People are long-suffering, but they will not stand it for ever," he added.

Decision was reserved.

ONthe first day of the resumed investigation, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Tuesday, by the Royal Commission on the unification of local areas, the proposed transport board for Tyneside met with determined opposition.

The first of the urban districts, Gosforth, was dealt with on Tuesday, and opposition to the suggested board was immediately forthcoming. Mr. Frank Kirby, clerk to Gosforth Urban District Council, pointed out that there were already the Traffic Commissioners, who afforded means ior ventilating various questions. No authority should be both adjudicator and operator.,

DOMESTIC SCHEME DISGUISED AS "CO-ORDINATION."

A SCHEME of co-ordination, already I—L sanctioned for, and put into operation by, the United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., is not approved by . the Traffic Commissioners of other areas concerned. Major C. L. Harding, applying for a backing before the North Western Commissioners, was informed of the opposition and notified that an arrangement for a conference, with a view to amending the scheme, had been made with the Western Commissioners.

Mr. W. Chamberlain, chairman of the North Western Commissioners, said that this was a combination of Operators for the purpose of " co-ordination," but was more properly a domestic -arrangement, giving to B to Z, the facilities sanctioned for A. If the facilities given in this matter by the West Midland Commissioners could' apply in, say, Oldham, they would he back to pre-1930 conditions. The backing would be granted, but it must not be taken as a general principle.


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