HC Deb 04 December 1902 vol 115 cc1325-6
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will state whether the apparatus for the intercommunication approved by the combined railway companies has been adopted by all the railway companies in the United Kingdom; and, if not, will he state what companies have refused to adopt the system.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, Central

The correspondence with the railway companies on this subject is contained in a Parliamentary Paper issued in 1899, and shows that at that time practically all the important companies had decided to adopt the system of communication by means of a partial application of the continuous brake. The principal exceptions were the companies already possessing electrical systems of communication and the Great Eastern Railway Company, who were in doubt as to the best method, but have since decided to adopt the brake system.