§ Mr. BOWERMANasked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that workpeople travelling to Ludgate Hill Station by the early morning trains are not permitted to return from that station in the evening, but are compelled to make the return journey from Holborn Viaduct Station; if he can state the reason for such 1354W inconvenience, which apparently has existed for some years; and whether, when the reconstruction of Ludgate Hill Station is completed, the company intend to allow such passengers to return from it at night?
Mr. TENNANTI understand that the arrangement referred to, which has been in operation since 1875, was due to complaints of the overcrowding of the narrow platforms at Ludgate Hill Station. The Joint Committee inform me that the question of allowing workmen to return from the station will again be fully considered before the platforms, which are now being reconstructed, are completed.