§ Sir JOHN DEWARasked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that the mail train which leaves Inverness for the North at 9.50 a.m. made a stop at Beauly prior to 30th June, 1909; that since that date it has not stopped at Beauly; and that this causes inconvenience to a very wide district; and if he will endeavour to arrange that this train will make a stop at Beauly as it formerly did?
§ The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Sydney Buxton)As I have already explained in this House, I have agreed as an experiment in the present summer to a retiming of the mail trains on the Highland Railway with the object of ensuring greater punctuality than has hitherto been found practicable during the busy season. The new scheme involves the omission of the stops at certain stations north of Inverness, including Beauly; but I should point out that although the 9.50 a.m. mail train will not stop at Beauly, mails and passengers will be conveyed by a train leaving Inverness at 9.55 a.m. and reaching Beauly at 10.19 a.m. I fear that I could not now arrange for the resumption of the stop at Beauly, but the result of the revised working will be carefully reviewed at the close of the tourist season.