§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will state what progress has been made with the establishment of a system of electric traction on the Metropolitan District Railway.
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. BONAR LAW,) Glasgow, BlackfriarsThe Metropolitan District Railway Company inform me that the railway between Mill Hill Park and South Harrow—a distance of about six miles—has been regularly worked by electric traction since Sunday, June 26th. The Company add that the working of the main line by electric traction depends upon the date of the completion of the Power House at Lots Road, Chelsea, which is being pressed forward with the greatest possible speed.