§ 43. Sir FRANK MEYERasked the Minister of Transport if he will state the cases in each of the last five years in which the Board of Trade or the Minister have exercised their powers under Section 7 of the Railway Clauses Act, 1863, to require a railway company to erect a bridge instead of a level crossing?
§ Colonel ASHLEYDuring the last five years no railway company has been formally required, under the provisions referred to, to erect a bridge instead of a level crossing. As I have previously explained, in answer to the question asked by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for the Waterloo Division of Lancashire, on 16th November, I am glad to say that on a few important main roads the allocation of grants from the Road Fund has rendered it possible for local authorities to face the expense of erecting bridges over level crossings. In other cases, as on the London-Tilbury road at Purfleet, and at Colnbrook on the Bath road, the construction of new by-pass roads has been undertaken to afford alternative and shorter routes free from level crossings.