CHRISTMAS COACHING ARRANGEMENTS.
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How London Coastal Coaches, Ltd., is Catering for Those Travelling During the Christmas Holidays.
ACOMPLETE list of the motorcoach services operating from the London station of London Coastal Coaches, Ltd., at 1a, Lupus Street, Londbn, S.W.1, around about Christmas time has just been prepared and it appears to cater in a thorough manner for the requirements of those who have to make journeys between London and the coastal and provincial towns during the Christmas holidays.
Generally speaking, the services are increased on Christmas Eve, and there are one or two late coaches that day leaving London for important places like Yarmouth and Boureemouth. There are on most routes a few departures in
each direction on Christmas morning, but it is not thought that there will be much demand for travel on the afternoon of Christmas Day, and the only other services operating later that day are in the night departures for Newcastle mid Torquay and the afternoon services between London and Leicester, Colchester, Southwohl, East Kent and Tunbridge Wells. As regards Boxing Day, the ordinary Saturday schedules apply in most eases and there are a few extra coaches leaving provincial centres for London in the evening.
The late Christmas Eve coach to Yarmouth leaves Lupus Street at 11.30 p.m. On Christmas Day this particular service is suspended, whilst on Boxing Day coaches1 leave London and Yarmouth at 6 p.m. only.
The London, Bournemouth, Torquay and Plymouth service operated by.., Royal Blue Coaches, will include the .. usual departure at 9 a.m. daily throughout the holidays and an additional coach leaving Loudon at 2 P.m.. on Christmas concerned with the type of vehicle by which he travels, so long as he or she is safely conveyed to their destinations. Old high-built open coaches have passed into the limbo of forgotten thingsand have been replaced by vehicles which are in line with the high standards of modern road travel.
What has been the res•rilt? In the past two or three years scores, if not hundreds, of new long-distance motorcoach and express motorbus services have been inaugurated. Co-ordination has been practised on a seale hitherto unknown ; patronage has become more regular, and facilities for _nighttravel
have been provided.
The most successful enterpris-es have eschewed the old haphazard methods of snatching traffic at any price and have sought to create a regular clientele by running coaches and buses wherever there is a demand, and even where there