§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, whether it has been brought to his notice that the Great Central Railway Company, which has occupied a portion of the Dorset Square Ward of East Marylebone, gives practically no facilities to the public in the matter of workmen's trains; whether he will draw the attention of the directors of this company to the provisions of the Cheap Trains Act of 1883, with a view to improving the service of workmen's trains.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURIf the hon. Member's Question refers to a lack of workmen's trains into and out of London, over the Great Central 587 Railway Company's lines, I would point out that that Company's nearest station to London appears to be Calvert in Bucks, a distance of 49 miles from the Company's London terminus. I have no evidence of a need of workmen's trains between these points. The provision of workmen's trains by the Company in the Manchester and Sheffield districts is shown in detail in a return presented to the House in the course of 1900.