A RAILWAY-CORPORATION AGREEMENT CONSIDERED.
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Some Notes Upon a Likely Scheme of Co-operation Between the L.N.E.R., the L.M.S. and Bradfbrd Corporation.
AN agreement between the London North Eastern Railway Co., the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Co. and Bradford Corporation regarding the joint operation of motorbus services similar to those in operation in Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield and Halifax, is under consideration. by Bradford Corporation. The services most affected by such an arrangement Would be that between Huddersfield and Bradford, now operated by Huddersfield -Corporation, Bradford Corporation and the railway-controlled Hebble Bus Ser
vices, and the Leeds-Bradford service now operated by Bradford Corporation. In the case of the Leeds service, the corporation gives half the proceeds to Leeds, and Leeds pays half the cost of operation.
• Under the agreement which the railway companies have made with Leeds Corporation, Leeds will receive a quarter share of the Leeds-Bradford service. The railway companies desire in their agreement that the corporation shall facilitate the inauguration of such additional services into Bradford as
might be agreed upon, and shall protect the routes operated over to whatever extent it lawfully can.
The chairman of the tramways committee of Halifax Corporation, in making the first public statement regarding the agreement which the corporation had ratified with the railway company for the formation of a joint committee for the operation of motorbuses, stated that, but for the agreement, the tramways and the motorbus undertaking of the corporation would have been in an unsatisfactory condition, both financially and in various other reap nets.
Ile said that the town and district would have been overrun with companies.' and persons giving services that, in Some eases, were more or less indifferent, and the council would have had to consider the withdrawal of the whole of its transport services, and the consequent loss a capital invested in the undertaking. The travelling public would have been at the mercy of these various companies, both in regard to fares and to time-tables, and many of them could not adequately serve the public in so efficient a manner as is demanded to-day.
The principal officials of the joint committee are the officeis of the corporation, the town clerk being the secretary, the tramways manager the manager, and the borough accountant the accountant. The chairman of the committte has emphatically denied the rumours that, during the whole of the negotiations, there had ever been any question of payment being given for services rendered by these officials. The details regarding the financial arrangements were given, in committee, to the members of the council.