§ SIR IVOR HERBERT (Monmouthshire, S.)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been drawn to the danger caused to the public by the conversion to railway traffic of a bridge over the River Sirhowy over which there is a public right of way to the Nine Mile Point Station of the London and North-Western Railway; whether he has ascertained if Parliamentary powers have now been granted for such conversion; and whether he will intervene to mitigate a serious nuisance and danger to the public and an interference with public rights of way.
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) The railway company, with whom I have communicated on this subject, do, not admit that the bridge referred to by my hon. and gallant friend is or was ever intended as an approach to the passenger station, or that there is a public right of way thereover. They state, however, that another connection between the 714 Sirhowy Railway and the Penllwyn Tramway having now been made, it is probable that railway traffic over the bridge will cease in the course of a few weeks, and that they will then be not indisposed to enter into negotiations with local authorities for the user of the bridge by the public as an approach to the station. I am sending my hon. and gallant friend a copy of the company's letter which deals with the matter at some length.