'utlin s Camp Service Review
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EAR ago the North Western Road ir Co., Ltd. were granted permis) operate express carriage services fl Manchester and Scarborough, picking-up and setting-down point Butlin's Holiday Camp at Filey. -agreed that after a year's operate case would be put before the Commissioners again and the nental period reviewed.
current substantive application has be heard in the North Western Area, but the backing was conbefore the Yorkshire Commisat Leeds last week.
W. Wooley, a traffic representative rth Western, stated that until last )assengers had been conveyed to 'rough or Bridlington, and then lad to make their own way to
's camp. Since they had been ing direct to the camp, passengers Trt very satisfied and their numbers creased. -Passengers were picked up tckport, Buxton, Northwich and 3r-and then fed into Manchester to he coach. Many other operators vices direct to the camp and he saw
no reason why North Western should not have the same facilities.
Mr. .1. Booth, objecting for British Railways, said that they had through rail connections to Filey and if the application were granted they would be bound to suffer abstration. Traffic had already decreased severely.
Three members of the public pointed out that it had been difficult to travel to Stalin's camp before 1960. It was better now there was a direct service and they wanted this to continue.
Mr. N. P. Matthews, a B.R. representative, detailed their services to Filey and said that recently the number of passengers had declined. If the application were granted they would suffer further losses.
Mr. D. L. Eytehe, North Western traffic manager, said it was in the public interest that the application should be granted, and the railways had not proved that they had suffered abstraction as a result of this particular service. '
The chairman, Major F. S. Eastwood, reserved his decision until the substantive application is heard in the North Western Area.