§ MR. LOUGH (Islington, W.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been drawn to announcements made by the Great Eastern Railway Company, that the workmen's trains on their lines will be suspended on the 26th and 27th inst.; and, having regard to the provisions of the Companies Act as to a daily service of workmen's trains, whether he can use any influence with the Railway Company to secure the maintenance of the usual facilities for working people on the two days of the Coronation.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralThe Railway Company concerned do not admit that, having regard to the provisions of the Bank Holidays' Act, they are under legal obligation to run workmen's trains on the days in question; but they state that, having received representations from workpeople residing in the districts served by their railway, they have issued notices announcing that workmen who are bona fide travelling to their work on those days can obtain workmen's twopenny tickets by certain specified trains. They point out that, under the special circumstances affecting their traffic on the days mentioned, they could not maintain the full facilities ordinarily granted to workmen going to and returning from their work.