Road Services to Take Over in East Anglia
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SUBJECT to The Traffic Commissioners' L.,1 approval, the ..Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., are to provide road services to replace the Midland and Great Northern joint line of British Railways in East Anglia.
Further bus services will operate between Peterborough, Wisbech, King's Lynn, Melton Constable, Yarmouth and Norwich. They will -involve .additional mileage of more than 500,000 a year by Eastern Counties.
Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., are to operate extra buses between Spalding and Saxby. Both companies are owned by the British Transport Commission.
Proposals for closing the railways will be submitted to the appropriate Transport Users' Consultative Committees on September 15.
Some lines are to remain open to freight traffic, but certain intermediate stations will be closed. The lines concerned are: Spalding to Sutton Bridge; Peterborough to Wisbech (North); King's Lynn to South Lynn and South Lynn to Gayton Road: and Melton Constable to Norwich (City). • •
On September 15, Danby Wiske station, in the North-Eastern Region of British Railways, will be closed and converted to a public delii,ery siding to deal with full wagon loads not requiring road collection or delivery. Smalls and parcels will be handled by railway cartage Vehicles operating from Northallerton. Buses' will take over from the railways between Otterington and Cowton on the same day.
NO LICENCE FOR LORRY:
140 FINES IMPOSED
A FTER buying a B-licence lorry from a widow, G. Baxter (Haulage), Ltd., Sheffield, used the vehicle before the licence had been_ transferred, Sheffield magistrates were told last week. The company were fined £1 on each of 20 summonses for running an unlicensed vehicle, and the widow, Mrs. Nellie Darnell, Mansfield Road, Chesterfield, was fined similar amounts for aiding and abetting.
Mr. M. H. Waite, defending, explained that the sale was made after Mrs. Darnell's son had been burned when one of her two vehicles overturned at a rubbish tip. Baxter's agreed to buy one of the lorries, subject to a transfer being granted by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority. .
However, although the application was made in January. the case was not heard until May 20, and meanwhile the company used the vehicle with Mrs. Darnell's consent.
WOMEN WANT EQUAL-PAY A DEMAND for equal pay for 190,000 /—k women workers in the engineering industry, involving an increase of 24s. 6d. a week, was submitted last week by the unions to the'Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation.