§ Sir P. AgnewWith your permission, Mr. Speaker, and the leave of the House, I should like to present a Petition from the Councils of the Parishes of Fladbury and Hill and Moor in the Rural District of Pershore in the County of Worcestershire and signed by 521 residents in those parishes.
The Petition is addressed to the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled and shows that British Railways, as part of their plans for the reorganisation of the Oxford—Stratford-on-Avon—Worcester railway line, propose to withdraw all passenger services from and to and to close the station at Fladbury.
Your humble Petitioners do not consider that the alternative bus services suggested are an adequate substitute for the regular train service which they now have, and they will suffer great hardship if Fladbury Station is closed.
Wherefore your humble Petitioners pray that the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled will direct British Railways to reconsider their proposals and make Fladbury Station an unmanned halt instead of withdrawing all passenger services and closing the station.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.