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RAIL CLOSURES—
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AND REPRIEVES
THE Minister of Transport has announced his decisions in respect of a further 41 rail closure proposals in England, Scotland and Wales; the effect is expected to provide a further E2 m. saving annually to the railways. Where bus services are run in lieu, and require subsidy, the cost, says the Ministry of Transport, is not likely to exceed 5.per cent of the total savings.
But not all the closure applications in the latest batch have succeeded; Mr. Marples has refused to grant closure or service withdrawal in five cases, as well as in part of two other eases. He has refused closure of the Newcastle and Tynemouth service via Riverside because it carries many shipyard workers and closure would add to existing road congestion; he has refused closure of the Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog service because of local hardship and the needs of the tourist trade; and he has refused to let the Middlesbrough to Whitby service close, partly because of the extreme difficulty of operating buses over the Esk Valley roads in winter.
The Minister has consented to closure of only the Crook-Bishop Auckland section of the Darlington line, and has ttranted closure of only the CaernarvonA fon Wen service on the BangorCaernarvon line.
Among the closures which he has agreed to are Bristol to Gloucester Eastgate; Taunton to Barnstaple (when roads have been improved, in 1965); Nottingham-Worksop; Blackpool (North)-Fleet. wood; Glasgow-Carlisle (local. service); and Carmarthen-Aberystwyth;