HC Deb 19 June 1891 vol 354 cc902-3
MR. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)

I had intended to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he will, in communicating to the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, the Report of General Hutchinson on the Norwood Bridge accident, consider the advisability of directing the Company, under the provisions of Section 32 of "The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888," to furnish the Board of Trade with an engineer's Report of the construction of other bridges on the Company's lines, stating the nature and quality, and tested breaking weight, of the girders employed in the construction of such bridges, and giving particulars of the tests that have been applied to them? In the absence of the right hon. Gentleman, I will postpone the question until Monday, although I do so somewhat reluctantly.