HC Deb 02 March 1938 vol 332 cc1110-1
72. Mr. Day

asked the Minister of Transport the number of gas-lit coaches still operating on the British railways steam-worked coaching stock; and what progress has been made by the railway companies during the last three years with the conversion of their gas-lit coaches to that of lighting by electricity?

Mr. Burgin

As the answer includes a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Mr. Day

Can the Minister say whether restaurant cars which are lighted with gas will be done away with?

Following is the answer:

The numbers of passenger-carrying coaching vehicles (other than electrically operated) owned by the railway companies at 31st December, 1935, 1936, and 1937, which were lighted by gas and electricity respectively were as follow:

Lighted by gas. Electrically lighted.
1935 9,713 30,510
1936 7,437 32,411
1937 (provisional figures) 6,295 34,586