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application4, INTO its last three days on Wednesday at Leeds before the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners went the marathon hearing of the applications by the Yorkshire-Torbay pool operators.
A group of ten companies seeks the joint operation of a new daily express service between Keighley and Cheltenham, there to link up with services to and from 13 destinations in the south and south-west.
Also sought is a Friday and Saturday—May to September—new express service, KeighleyPaignton via Cheltenham, with feeder services to and from Halifax and Leeds and towns en route to Wakefield, there to connect with the main service. On this weekend service, connection facilities are provided for to and from the south and south-west and Cheltenham and Exeter.
The objectors are British Railways, C. G. Littlewood Ltd., Hanson Buses Ltd., Heap Tours Ltd. and Ellen Smiths Tours Ltd.
The whole of Wednesday's sitting was taken up with the address of Mr. A. J. F. Wrottesley, for British Railways, who said the advantage of road flexibility was acknowledged but BR could not subscribe to the proposal to serve the West Riding generally with feeder services from important centres—Feeder services from small towns would have been another matter.
Rail facilities were adequate and it would not be in the public interest to grant any additional facilities, even for the summer period, which would have the effect of reducing travel by rail, resulting in a contraction of rail services.
Mr. Wrottesley asked the Commissioners to refuse the whole application.