Beeching Plan Disclosure
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THE Beeching Report showed that the Hull area was certain of retaining the rail links with only Leeds and Doncaster, said the Lord Mayor of Hull on Friday, When he revealed that he had had an unofficial preview of the Report.
The implied probability of big cuts in rail services in the East Riding—notably the severing of links between Hull and coast resorts such as Bridlington, Filey, Scarborough and Withernsea, and that I rom Hull to York via Market Weighton --would radically alter the pattern of transport in the area. Yorkshire coast resort spokesmen said later that they were staggered" by the disclosure.
The Lord Mayor, Alderman G. Frear, was speaking at the annual dinner of the Road Haulage Association. Yorkshire' (Hull) Area. So far as roads were concerned, he said, they were not satisfied with the communications from the city.
He wondered how much was being done by the haulage industry in the matter of training and gave a reminder that Hull College of Technology was working in co-operation with the Institute of Transport to provide facilities.
There had always been keen interest ill Hull in the key role that road transport could play in the export drive, said Mr D. 0. Good, R.H.A. national chairman, There had been increases in wages and in the price of fuel, so their problem was to keep down costs without loss of efficiency. The R.H.A. had suggested to the Chancellor's Economic Secretary that the time had come for the Budget to make some concessions to road operators