Minister Decides 166 Appeals: Fares and Duplication
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THE Minister of Transport has an1 nomiced his decisions on the group of 166 appeals against rulings of the Yorkshire, East Midland, West Midland, Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners. by Yorkshire Pool Services; London, Midland and Yorkshire Services, Ltd. ; London, Midland and Scottish and London and North Eastern Railway Companies ; Orange Eros., Ltd. ; United Automobile Services, Ltd., and Majestic Saloon Coaches (Newcastle and London), Ltd. Certain of the appeals were withdrawn. Since the appeals of London, Midland and Yorkshire Services were lodged, the company's business has been purchased by Yorkshire Pool Services, and the licences transferred by the Yorkshire Commissioners.
The routes concerned are Barnsley to London, Keighley, Bradford, Hull, Harrogate, Scarborough and Birmingham, London to Leeds, Doncaster, Bradford, Glasgow and Newcastle, Harrogate to Birmingham, and Doncaster to IIalifax and Scarborough.
The Orange, U.A.S. and Majestic companies appealed against fares conditions in Yorkshire, and the L.N.E.R. -against fares conditions imposed in Yorkshire upon these three companies and Phillipson's Motor Coaches and Charltons' Blue Safety Coaches. The railways also appealed against fares conditions granted to Yorkshire Pool Services by the five Commissioners concerned.
The Commissioners for all the areas agreed upon the fares for express services from Yorkshire to London and Birmingham, and, although the Minister is not prepared to say that these fare-tables are faultless, he is unable to disturb them on the facts before him. He would, he feels, not he justified in referring the matter back to the Commissioners, as suggested by Sir Henry Wynne, who heard the appeals.
Yorkshire Pool Services appealed unsuccessfully against the refusal of dayreturn tickets in the Yorkshire, East Midland, West Midland and Metropolitan Areas. Decisions of the Yorkshire, East Midland and West Midland Commissioners to extend the age for the free carriage of children from three to five years brought forth appeals from the railways, which have succeded, and the age is reduced to three years.
The Orange, U.A.S. and Majestic appeals against restrictions on picking up and setting down in Yorkshire fail. On the appeal of the L.N.E.R. against the grant of an additional fare stage to Phillipson's, the Minister has ordered its deletion.
Important appeals against duplication conditions imposed by the Yorkshire, West Midland and Metropolitan Commissioners were lodged by Yorkshire Pool Services, and by the rail 1338 ways against such conditions in the Yorkshire and West Midland Areas.
The Yorkshire Commissioners were satisfied that the traffic to and from Harrogate and the Yorkshire seaside resorts was of a holiday character, and permitted duplication in excess of the limit embodied in the well-known Order 54 (1933). The Minister accepts this view and has decided not entirely to adopt Sir Henry Wynne's recommendations, but to uphold the general principles of the rulings of the Yorkshire . and West Midland Commissioners.
The orders on these Commissioners permit not more than two-thirds of the additional journeys which may be operated on any day to be worked in any direction. The Minister hopes that the Commissioners will keep the operation of the conditions in question under special review. His decision affects only indirectly the duplication of vehicles on feeder services between Barnsley and various Yorkshire towns, on which the number of passengers was restricted, rather than the vehicles. The Metropolitan Commissioner i: directed to amend the conditions on the London-Barnsley services to bring them into line with the Minister's decisions.
• There is no order as to costs.