HC Deb 22 August 1893 vol 16 cc768-9
MR. MAURICE HEALY

I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether all special mail trains for American mails from Queenstown to Kingstown to catch the ordinary mail boats are detained at Kingsbridge until the ordinary mail train is leaving or only some such trains; and, if only some, in what cases the special train goes on to Kingstown, and in what cases the mails are detained at Kingsbridge?

MR. A. MORLEY

American mails conveyed by special trains arriving from Queenstown during the night are invariably sent on by special train from Kings-bridge, because there is no ordinary train by means of which they could catch the day mail boat from Kingstown; but those reaching Dublin during the afternoon, in time to admit of their being conveyed from Kingsbridge by the regular mail train, remain at Kingsbridge to be carried on by that train.