§ MR. D. MACALEESE (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the 1221 Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, is he aware that the Clogher Valley Railway Company repeatedly start their trains from Tynan without waiting for the mails due on the arrival of the Great Northern trains from Belfast, thereby causing a delay of several hours in the delivery at Aughnacloy, Ballygawley, Augher, and other towns; and will steps be taken to provide a remedy?
§ * THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY, Preston)It is the fact that, owing to the late arrival at Tynan of the Great Northern train from Belfast, there are occasional failures of junction with the 9.40 a.m. train on the Clogher Valley Railway, giving rise to a delay of about four hours in the delivery of the day mail letters at Aughnacloy, Ballygawley, etc. The Department is in communication with the railway companies concerned to see if anything can be clone to insure greater regularity. The Clogher Valley Company are, however, in this difficulty that the 9.40 a. m. train from Tynan is Only due at Maguiresbridge seven minutes before the train thence for Enniskillen, and that tins connection would be endangered were they to wait longer at Tynan for the Belfast train. They already allow an interval of ten minutes for any delay in the arrival of the train from Belfast, which is due at Tynan at 9.30.