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NEWCASTLE TO RUN 200 TROLLEYBUSES
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IT is anticipated that within the next five or six years, the tram services in Newcastle-on-Tyne will be completely superseded by buses and trolleybuses. The total cost of removing the tramlines and reinstating the roads will be about £200,000. Already plans have been approved for the reinstating of another five miles of tram route, making a total of _14 miles converted and 30 miles still to be changed over.
Councillor J. A. Clydesdale, vicechairman of the transport and electricity committee of the city council, suggested, last week, that local authorities, changing over from trams to trolleybuses, should ask the Ministry of Transport for grants towards the cost of reinstating the roads. He stated that, when Newcastle's plans were completed, it would have 200 trolleybuses, and licences would cost about £20,000. This meant that the Road Fund was . receiving additional revenue from the city, but local authorities still had to meet the cost of road reconstruction and tramliueremoval, but received no extra giants.
BELFAST BUYING EXPERIMENTAL TROLLEYBLYSES?
T"general manager of Belfast Transport Department, Major R. McCreary, has recommended the purchase of 14 trolleybuses at present on loan to the corporation. These vehicles have been operating an experimental service on the Falls Road route since March, 1938. The finance committee of the corporation has agreed to advance £37,380. the purchase price of the vehicles concerned.
WHEN FHE PASSENGERS 'HELPED' ' THE VEHICLE.
ACONTRAST, with the comfortS of present-day ' road travel by motor coach, was afforded by a story, of the last stage horsed-coach to work out of Hull, told by Mr. T. Sheppard, Director of Museums at Hull, when he addressed York Rotary Club, last week, on "Two Thousand Years of Transport." This coach, said Mr. Sheppard, ran to South Cave, before the opening of the old Hull and Barnsley railway. He remembered it very well.
There were three separate fares— first, second and third. There was no difference whatever in the accommodation, but when the coach reached the long hill going into South Cave, the first-class passengers retained their seats, those travelling second-class got out and walked, and third-class passengers were required to assist in pushing the coach and the first-class passengers up the hill.
CHESTERFIELD'S INTEREST IN PRODUCER-GAS VEHICLES.
FOLLOWING on reports submitted to Chesterfield Transport Committee by the chairman and. transport manager, regarding recent developments in producer-gas vehicles, the transport manager has been authorized to make a full investigation. It is understood that he is to visit. the Continent in this connection.
Stockton-on-Tees . Corporation proposes opening a bus service to Maltby, Thornton, Stainton and Stokesley. * Young's Bus Services, Ltd., Paisley, has had plans passed for the erection of_ a garage for 50 buses at Gordon Street, Paisley.
The Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., Chester-le-Street, is to operate a new service of buses from Consett to Tow Law.
Buses will supersede trams on the King Richard's Road route, Leicester, in the near future, when the city's highways department completes the reconstruction of the road.