§ Mr. CLANCYasked whether, since the 1st instant, the railway stations at Drumcondra and Glasnevin (Dublin) have been closed for passenger traffic by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company; whether the company obtained power to make the line on which those stations are situate on, inter alia, the undertaking that those stations would be established and maintained; whether, if the excuse for closing them is that their maintenance was not justified by the traffic obtained through them, the company ever gave the public of the districts mentioned a suitable service; and whether the Board of Trade has any power to interfere in this matter in the interest of the public; and, if so, whether they will exercise it?
Mr. BUXTONI am not aware that the Board of Trade have any statutory jurisdiction in this matter, but I have sent a copy of the hon. Member's question to the railway company for their observations, and I will communicate with him on receipt of their reply.