§ MR. SEYMOUR ORMSBY-GORE (Lincolnshire, Gainsborough)To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that a level crossing of the projected Isle of Axholme Railway to be constructed by the North-Eastern Railway in that district traverses the main street of the village of Haxey; and whether, in view of the opposition of the Haxey Parish Council to the crossing, he can take any steps to have the railway diverted from the centre of the village.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) The railway was authorised by an Order under the Light Railways Act in 1899, and the Order contains no provision enabling the Board of Trade to divert the railway. No opposition to the Order appears to have proceeded from the Haxey Parish Council.