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STRANGE REFUSAL BY NATIONAL

3rd September 1976
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Keywords : Cwmbran

REFUSAL by the National Bus Company to allow an ndependent to use the Cwmbran Bus Station as a picking up Ind setting down point on services to Dover, was criticised by the South Wales Traffic Commissioners at Cardiff last week.

R. I. Davies and Son Ltd, ueen Victoria Street, New fredegar, applied to add new 3oints at Cwmbran and Pontypool for its existing services !rom Tredegar and Blackwood to Dover.

Mr R. Craddick, for the company, said the services were used for carrying passengers going on Continental tours and the application had been opposed by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd. That company's operations were from Bristol and it was difficult to see how it could have been a valid objection. However, the objection had been withdrawn when it was agreed that all passengers carried from the new points must be prebooked.

The point at Cwmbran would now be at Somerset Road and not at the bus station, as the company had been informed by the National Bus Company that it would not be possible to use the bus station because it was on lease from the local council to its subsidiaries, Red and White Services Ltd and Western Welsh Omnibus Co Ltd.

Granting the application, the chairman, Mr R. R. Jackson, said the Commissioners considered it strange that the passengers would not be allowed to use the bus station.

Mr Jackson said it did not appear to be in the public interest that passengers should have to lug cases to another part of the town to get on their tours — especially if they had travelled in by NBC stage carriage services.

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Locations: Bristol, Cardiff

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