COACH GRANT FOR YORK SHIRE POOL OPERATORS
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DESPITE an objection from British Railways, the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners hive granted an application by Yorkshire Services pool operators to introduce additional journeys between London and Barnsley on the motorway route.
Mr. W. R. Hargrave, representing the joint operators, said that the pool partners had repeatedly been asked to provide increased facilities and they had issued questionnaires to coach passengers.
There was an adequate response from people who supported the application. Mr. Hargrave said 41 were frequent passengers, 160 were occasional and 81 very occasional, whilst 58 were coach passengers resident in the London area. Witnesses had come to Leeds from Sheffield,. Barnsley, Chesterfield and even from London.
Mr. Frank Buckby, for British Railways, said they were apprehensive about the additional coach journeys, even though only one vehicle might operate. There had been a decline in rail passengers since 1961, he said, and the railways were trying to protect their position by ensuring there was no further decline.