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PHASES OF PASSENGER TRAVEL
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Notes on Every Aspect of Coach and Bus Development:
MIDDLESBROUGH'S NEW BUS STATION.
Some Details of the Latest Enterprise of a Corporation Which Pioneered the Bus Station on Tees-side.
TIDDLESBROUGH Corporation, which is, at present, contemplating the erection of a new motorbus station to cost approximately £4,000, is one of the few municipalities in the north to recognize the advantages which accrue from such an establishment. Indeed, it may be said that it pioneered the busstation idea on Tees-side, for, between four and five years ago, it provided small but extremely useful premises, these then being sufficient to meet the volume of passenger road traffic to and from the town.
The existing station—an illustration of which is published herewith—comprises two large passenger shelters and a platform providing accommodation for six vehicles, and it copes with several hundred buses daily. An official is on duty regularly to assist travellers in the selection of the quickest route to any given point within a radius of 50-60 miles.
The new scheme is much more ambitious than the former and, upon completion, will provide the town with a station in keeping with its importance as a centre of road passenger transport. Besides loading and unloading platforms and waiting-room accommodation, the new establishment will have an inquiry office ; it is also expected that there will be a number of shops, for the convenience of passengers who require light refreshments, etc., for their journeys.
Amongst the more important undertakings working services from Middlesbrough are the United Automobile Services, Ltd., which operates an extensive network of routes to many parts of the surrounding countryside • Smith's Safeway Coaches, Redwing Motor Services, Ltd., Blue Band Motors and the Middlesbrough Corporation, which concentrates upon the provision of frequent
• in-town services, these being operated mostly on circular routes. It is possible to obtain through • vehicles to nearly every important town in the north country, including Newcastle, Scarborough, Whitby and Leeds.
• In addition, Middlesbrough is becoming increasingly important as a northcountry centre of limited-stop services, and amongst these are included regular daily services to London, Blackpool and Southport.. Each of these routes is, at present, carrying a heavy volume of bollday traffic.
Besides the through services worked from the town, convenient connections are made at various points along routes to nearly all parts of England and Scotland, and the through-booking arrangements which are in operation are found to be a considerable boon to travellers.
The present average number of bus journeys to and from the station each week-day is 1,000 and 1,200 on Saturdays and Sundays. The total number of passenger motor vehicles licensed in the town now stands at 196.