LONDON HAS NEW MOTOR STATION NEAR VAUXHALL

Shannon News, 31 May 1929, Page 4

LONDON HAS NEW MOTOR STATION NEAR VAUXHALL

LONDON, April 27. A new motor coach station which will rival the big. railway termini in the facilities offered to passengers isbeing erected near Vauxhall and Kenuington Oval cricket ground. T. Boon, of Blue Belle Motors, Ltd., who is responsible for the station, declares it will be the largest motocoach station in Great Britain—prob ably the largest in the world. Such •< station, he said, Lad become essentia, to deal with the rapidly increasing coach traffic. He had calculated thathere were over 27,000 motor coachesrunning in the south of England alone and the police authorities no longer ai lowed companies to embark their pas sengers in the streets.

Mr Boon described the site as a veo fine one, and said that the station would cost at least £IOO,OOO to com pi etc. There will be accommodation for 250 motor coaches at a time alonj' side the 12 platforms, with indicators showing the destination of the various coaches and the times of starting. On either side of the entrance, built on s 250-foot frontage, will be hotels,- re? tnurants, 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. <