§ MR. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the fatal accident to two platelayers on the South Western Railway, near West Moors, on Wednesday, 8th March, during a thick fog; whether the South Western Railway Company have put into operation the revised rules for the protection of plate- 668 layers recommended by the Clearing House Committee after Major Marindin's Report on the Syston accident; and whether the Board of Trade will order an inquiry into the circumstances of this fatality?
§ MR. MUNDELLAThe usual Return required from the Company has been rendered, and also the Coroner's Return, in which a verdict of "accidental death" appears, but no recommendation was made by the jury. The Company have put into operation the revised rules referred to; and, having regard to the result of the Coroner's inquest, I do not think any good purpose could be answered by an inquiry.