LONDON’S MOTOR STATION

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1929, Page 7

LONDON’S MOTOR STATION

PLATFORMS WITH INDICATORS. CAN HANDLE 250 COACHES. A new motor-coach station which will rival the big railway termini in the facilities offered to is being erected near Vauxhall and Kennington Oval cricket ground. T Boon of Blue Belle Motors, Ltd., who is responsible for the station, told a representative of the Christian Science* Monitor that it would be the largest motor-coach station in Great Britain—probably the largest in the world. Such a station, he said, had become essential to deal with the rapidly increasin'” coach traffic. He had calculated that ‘there were over 27,000 motorcoaches running in the south of England alone, and the police authorities no longer allowed companies to embark their passengers in the streets. Mr. Boon described th. site as a very fine one, and said that the station would cost at least £lOO,OOO to complete. There will be accommodation for 250 motorcoaches at a :ime alongside the 12 platforms, with indicators showing the destinatioiis of tho various coaches and the times of starting. On either side of the entrance, built on a 250-foot frontage, will be hotels, restaurants, waiting rooms, booking offices and shops.

The station is situated on the main roads from Victoria to Margate, Dover, Eastbourne, Brighton and Portsmouth, and it is also well served by buses, tubes and tram-cars from all parts of London.