HC Deb 28 February 1884 vol 285 c92
SIR HENRY TYLER

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether, having regard to recent events in Turkomania and the Russian advance to Merv, Her Majesty's Government will now reconsider the question of extending the Railway from Sibi in the direction of Kandahar, not merely for strategical purposes, but also for facilitating British commerce with Central Asia?

MR. GLADSTONE

Sir, Her Majesty's Government are sensible of the fact that it may be necessary, as indicated in the Question of the hon. Member, to reconsider the question of extending the railway, at all events, as far as Quetta. It may be well that I should add that there is already in process of construction a road to Quetta by a route which would, in a great measure, be the foundation, if I may so speak, of the proposed railway.