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SOUTH-EASTERN COMMISSIONERS APPROVE NEW LONGDISTANCE SERVICE
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Coach Line from Liverpool to South Coast Approved as an Experiment ; Direct Railway Service Shown to be Inade quate A T a sitting of the South-Eastern 1-1.Commissioners a few days ago, Mr. J. Pearson, proprietor of Happy Days Motorways, Liverpool, applied for a backing for a new service from Liverpool to Brighton and Eastbourne, via Birkenhead, Chester, Whitchurch, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Warwick, Banbury, Oxford, Reading, Aldershot, Guildford and Horsham. He showed that there were in existence road services from Liverpool to places like Great Yarmouth, Bournemouth, Torquay, Weston-super-Mare and Ilfracombe, and that facilities ought to be provided for Brighton and Eastbourne.
With the concurrence of the Southern Railway Co., it was pointed out that the railway provided during the summer only one direct train per day and during the winter only one direct train per week on this route. It was shown that there were passengers who travelled via London and that this was inconvenient.
The railway company claimed that no evidence had been produced to show that there was a demand for such a service.
The Commissioners retired to consider the matter and decided to grant a baeking for a road-service licence to make one journey daily in each direction, without duplication, although duplication might be requested. They said that they regarded it as an experimental licence.
It is gratifying in this, our annual Passenger Vehicle Issue, to be able to record a decision like the above, which indicates a reasonable attitude on the part of the Commissioners. On the occasion of the deputation of the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, Ltd., to the Minister of Transport Olt December 16th, attention was drawn to the difficulty of proving a public need for a new service, and experimental licences were suggested. The Minister promised consideration of the point and this appears to have been given.
'Northern. • STOCKTON Corporation's application
for consent, under Part V of the Read Traffic Act, to operate buses outside the borough boundary will be considered at a public inquiry which the Commissioners will hold at Stockton on February 11th.
Yorkshire.
NEXT weak's sitting at Leeds will be featured by persistent railway opposition to well-established services operated by reputable undertakings. A large batch a excursions and tours will be dealt with, including those of 'J. Bullock and Sons (1928), Ltd., which are being opposed. Many other excursion applications are faced only with representations by municipal bodies asking for local-authority conditions •to be imposed.
East Midland.
NOTTINGHAM has been selected for 'next week's sitting, when stage services in the region a that town will be dealt with, the applicants being mainly independent concerns ; there is little opposition. Leicester Corporation's local bus services, as well as many of the "Midland Red" lines, will come up for hearing it this sitting. These will, it is confidently anticipated, involve but little argument.
southern.
A LIST is published in the latest
gazette of applications to be dealt with at Reading on February 8th and the following days, these being grouped according to the actual day of hearing. The sitting has evidently been excellendy organized, for only excursions and tours and a few express services are being considered and all emanating from adjacent districts are being taken together.
South-Eastern.
TRE Commissioners are holding a sit
ting at the Courts of Justice, in London, next week, when applications by the East Kent, Southdown, Maidstone and District, Eastern National, Western National and Southern National concerns will be disposed of. They are, in the main, not difficult cases, and cover well-established coach lines.
Eastern.
CAMBRIDGE has been chosen for the sitting commencing February 5th, when a number of express services passing through this area, as well as excursions by independent operators, will occupy the Commissioners. Railway opposition is fairly general; the L.M.S. concern is opposing the Harrogate-London service of the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., and will appear, in company with Green Line Coaches, Ltd., and railway-associated companies, in opposition to the Leeds-London service of South Yorkshire Motors, Ltd.
Metropolitm THE Commissioner's 1932 sittings commence next week. A feature of the first day will be the bearing of applications by Eva's Motor Coaches, Ltd., for express services on short routes across London, there being opposition by the Taxi Drivers League and the L.G.O. Co., Ltd. The BournemouthLondon express services of Tourist Motor Coaches (Southampton), Ltd., will be opposed by the Southern Railway and competing coach operators,