§ 39. Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked whether the Board of Trade have approved of the proposed (and in some cases nearly finished) escalators now being substituted for lifts at certain railway stations in London; if the Board intend to permit the lifts to be abolished at any deep stations where escalators are being constructed; and, if so, what means of transit up and down it is proposed to provide for elderly, short-sighted, lame, and invalid persons whose different employment obliged them to use the various underground railways?
§ Mr. BURNSLifts are retained in use at some stations where escalators have 1697 been constructed; at others escalators have been constructed at the outset instead of lifts, and stairways are also available. If the hon. Member will indicate any particular station at which he is of opinion that inconvenience is or may be caused, I will look into the matter.