Road-Rail Combination is Future Plan
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,cOME combination of road and rail NJ services was part of the pattern of future communications, Mr. H. C. Iohnson, general manager of the Eastern Region of British Railways, told the East Midlands Transport Users' Consultative Conimittee at Bourne on Monday..
The • committee .Was hearing -35 objections to the British Transport Ccitrunission7s plan to close wholly to passenger traffic and• partly to :goods traffic' the 175 miles of the old Midland and Great Northern Railway from Saxby to the NorfOlk coast.
The Cornmission arguedthat the closUre wriuld save ht. least £640,000 a year and there would be ample provision by the use of the Great Eastern line and additional bus facilities.
Mr:. Johnson said that there were nearly_ as many buses in and out 'of Bourne in a day as there were passengers on the railway. Moreover, only 6 per cent. of the sugar-beet sent to the Spalding factory went by •rail. The Opposition had argued that there was no suitable alternative transport for the area's great agricultural production, including potatoes, sugar-beet and grain. Bus services-.were also said to be sparse.
MORE BABYCHAM FOR HAULIERS A SUBSTANTIAL quantity of Baby cham would in future be available for ..transport by hauliers, Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, said at Bristol on Tuesday. "Recently. Showerings, Ltd.,. the manufacturers, were convicted on a number of summonses, which has meant they have had to re-organize their business in order that they may comply with their licence conditions,. and this will bring about more haulage for outside firms," he' added. .
He was hearing an application by Massey and Wilcox,' Gurney Slade, Somerset, to replace a vehicle of 21 tons by an articulated outfit of 41 tons to carry general goods, mainly dairy products, paper and agriculturalrequisites, normally to London, the Midlands, Yorkshire, and within a radius of -250 miles. The application, which was opposed by British Railways and British Road Services, was granted.
EXPANSION NOT EXPECTED .
WHEN he granted an operator a licence in 1956, he had not contemplated that the haulier would expand his activities to their present state, Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, admitted at Bristol on Tuesday.
Champion Delivery Serviee, 15 Barrow Road, Bristol, 5, were applying to vary the conditions of their .B licence for a vehicle of 2 tons 19 cwt., to read: " Retail deliveries, furniture and household effects within a radius of 200 miles." There were 12 objectors, including B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd.
The applicants began in 1956 with a 5-cwt. van and now operated a Luton van. The application was refused for lack of evidence.