§ DR. COOPER (Southwark, Rotherhithe)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been drawn to the action of the South Eastern Railway in reducing, since 1st May, the number of trains leaving Charing Cross and Cannon Street Stations between the hours of five and nine in the evening, and stopping at the Spa Road Station from fifteen to eight trains, at Southwark Park Station from twenty-two to eight, and at the Deptford Station from eleven to eight; whether he is aware that while the number of trains stopping at these stations after 5 p.m. have been reduced the number of trains leaving these stations for the City and West End before nine in the morning have been increased; whether he is aware the facilities for travelling by tramway or omnibus have not increased, but are the same as have been in existence for twenty years, and that owing to reducing the trains in the evening the trains are overcrowded, and inconvenience experienced by the travelling public in the parts of Bermondsey and Deptford served by this railway; and whether he will authorise an inquiry by the Railway Commissioners into the matter.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) The Board of Trade have invited the observations of the managing committee of the railway upon the points raised by my hon. friend, and will communicate with him upon receipt of the committee's reply.