§ MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottinghamshire, Rushcliffe)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade when the General Report upon the Accidents on the Railways of the United Kingdom for 1904 will be in the hands of Members, and whether he will give the following figures for 1904: From train accidents—passengers killed and injured respectively; railway servants, killed and injured respectively; train mileage; from movement of trains and vehicles, exclusive of train accidents—passengers killed and injured respectively; railway servants killed and injured respectively; number of servants exposed to danger from movement of railway vehicles.
(Answered by Mr. Bonar Law.) The General Report on Railway Accidents for 1904 will not in the ordinary course be issued for some little time, but the Returns for the three months ended 31st December last are now with the printers, and will shortly be issued. During the year 1904 there were six passengers and seven railway servants killed, and 533 passengers and 114 servants injured in train accidents. In other accidents caused by the movement of trains and railway vehicles 109 passengers and 403 servants were killed, and 2, 135 passengers and 3, 768 servants were injured. These figures may be subject to some slight alterations before the Returns are published but are substantially correct. The Board of Trade cannot yet give the train mileage for 1904, or the number of servants exposed to danger from the movement of railway vehicles.