Trimdon Motor Services Appeal Dismissed
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PrE Minister of Transport has disnissed an appeal by Trimdon Motor Services Ltd. against the decision of the Northern Traffic Commissioners refusing to grant a variation of a road service licence authorizing a stage carriage service between Houghton-le-Spring and Sedgefield, so as to extend it to Newton Aycliffe. The Minister had no doubt that the evidence presented at the four-day hearing showed a need for some improvements in the services offered in the area, but he agreed with his inspector's assessment of this need that it bad been met by adjusting the objector's existing services, which were not a matter of appeal.
Apart from reports of changes involving long waits, the Minister could find no conclusive evidence that the services already running were so inadequate as to justify introducing a new one. He also noted the clear evidence of likely abstraction from the objector's services, and the admissions that, after some initial difficulties, their adjusted services wers running satisfactorily.