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New Bus Station to Handle 5m. Passengers a Year
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A NEW 1200,000 bus station at St. riMark Street, Lincoln, operated by the Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., was formally opened last week by the Mayor of Lincoln, Cllr. L. H. Priestley. The station, of attractive contemporary appearance and functional layout, is designed to handle 110,000 stage-service departures and 5m. passengers annually.
About 70 of the company's fleet of 450 vehicles will operate from and be garaged in it. Previously, services were worked from four points in the city and passengers for whom a change of bus was necessary were often faced with walks of up to 10 minutes. The new site is accessible from all points of the city, including the two railway stations.
The station has an inquiry and booking hall, waiting room, parcels office, café, and newspaper and tobacco kiosk on the ground floor, with two further floors above containing operating staff offices and company headquarters.
Under the cover of the aluminium decking roof, the main passenger platform is designed to allow vehicles to draw up one behind the other. Two shorter island platforms are also provided. Buses enter the station through two gates and leave, preserving one-way circulation, through a common exit. Servicing facilities include two fuel pumps, fed from two 6,000-gal. storage tanks, and a Widney bus washer. This machine can be operated electrically by a manual switch, or automatically by the vehicle breaking an electronic light ray.
Day-to-day servicing and running repairs arc carried out in well lighted a n d heated bays. There are four pits, one of which is specially extended to accommodate underfloor-engined chassis. Stores, battcry room and boiler house arc adjacent to the repair area. The entire building is centrally heated by low-pressure hot water from oil-fired boilers utilizing, to a large extent, waste oil recovered from the vehicles.
The administrative floors are notable for their light and airy offices. Much of the furniture has been produced in the company's own workshops and the bright colour scheme which characterizes the public rooms is continued throughout the upper floors. Attractive canteen facilities are available for both platform and office staff.
The station is expected to attract increased traffic and,' at the same time, pay immediate dividends in reducing dead, mileage and permitting closer conr trol of operations. Major. vehicle repairs, however; will continue to be carried out at Bracebridge Heath; this depot is being extended to form a central workshop.