Carrierways granted feeder service for Poland
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• Because passengers wished to travel on the day ferry and a Polish/English speaking courier was essential, the North Western and Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners granted a feeder service for Carrierways Ltd's Polish train service at a resumed hearing in Manchester on Friday (CM July 19). Subject to successful backing applications in the Eastern and East Midland areas, the company will be able to operate daily until September 30, and then a weekend service throughout the winter until May 1969 for passengers travelling on the route of its Poland Express Service.
In order to meet objections from the extended tours operators. the company agreed that no passengers should be carried other than those travelling to or from Berlin, Poland and Russia. The service will operate
between Bradford, Manchester, Nottingham, Leicester and Harwich.
Chairman of the company, Captain T. A. Kutek, disclosed that he was still negotiating with the West Yorkshire Road Car Co. Ltd. for the hire of coaches but a guaranteed amount would he paid regardless of the loadings. He submitted figures showing that in January 1968 the average number of passengers from the Leeds/Bradford and Manchester areas together had been 12.
This, said Mr. F. D. Walker, objecting for Yelloway Motor Services Ltd., at £4 per return fare represented £48 per journey which was not a viable proposition. Captain Kutek pointed out that carryings from Nottingham and Leicester would double that figure and higher loadings in the summer would offset the winter running. The highest average loadings were in July this year: 30 from Leeds/Bradford and 26 from Manchester.
Mrs. J. Getz, of Salford, said she was leaving for London by train at midnight with three children. Apart from an inevitable sleepless night, she would need porters and a taxi for the station change and she would definitely use a direct coach service, if available.
With Premier Travel, his company ran an overnight express service from Lancashire to Colchester from where passengers could catch a train to Harwich, said Mr. H. Allen, general manager of Yelloway. His company would be willing to inaugurate a new direct service or to act in a pool with West Yorkshire. Mr. Walker submitted that the licence holder should be the operator because of prosecution difficulties in the event of breaches of the law.