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CLOSURE FIGHT FOR HIGH COURT?
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ANY further development in Yorkshire of a mixture of stage carriage and express bus services, such as are now being operated by United Automobile Services Ltd. and East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd. in substitution for rail services, may be affected by the latest move of the East Riding Public Transport Development Council.
This Council, set up two years ago to challenge the proposed closure of the York-Hull railway link via Pocklington. is to consider applying for a High Court order of Prohibition if the Minister of Transport does not reconsider his recent decision to end rail passenger services on this line.
The chairman of the Council. Mr. L. C._ Sands. a Pocklington solicitor, said there was strong feeling in the East Riding over the matter and the Council wanted to know how the Minister came to be informed that the withdrawal of services would save the taxpayer £100.000 annually, when last year the Railways Board gave a figure of £11,300 to the Yorkshire area Transport Users' Consultative Committee.
Mr. Sands added that if the matter were taken to High Court it would probably be the first time that anyone in Britain has taken such a step in regard to a rail closure. East Yorkshire would be the substituting road transport com pany on the route, if the line closes, with the probability of the present stage carriage services between Hull and York being interspersed with some "limited stop" vehicles, as has been the case between Pickering and Whitby since the rail closure in the spring of this year. The latter route is operated by United.
East Yorkshire now operates the entire public transport for the Yorkshire coastal resorts of Hornsea and Withernsea. The Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners will review these services at a hearing in Leeds on September 17.