§ MR. E. P. MONCKTON (Northants, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, if he can inform the House whether the Great Eastern Railway Company have in any way fulfilled the promise made by him last year with regard to improving the present dangerous conditions under which passenger and goods traffic is worked at their station at Peterborough; whether the traffic at that station is conducted in all respects in conformity with the existing regulations laid down by the Board of Trade; and whether he will use such power as is possessed by the Board of Trade, and also his good offices with the company, to urge on them admitted and much needed reforms in their station and traffic, especially in at least doubling the width of the central (or island) platform, which has considerable traffic from four great railway companies on each side, and is only nine feet wide?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. C. T. RITCHIE,) CroydonThe matter to which my hon. Friend refers has not been lost sight of, and is still receiving the attention of the railway company. I understand that the company is in correspondence with the local authority in regard to the station arrangements generally, and I shall be glad to show the hon. Member a letter which I have just received from the company on the subject.