§ Sir WALTER ESSEXasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will consider the desirability, in the interests of economy and public convenience, of closing Dowdeswell Station and dealing with the traffic at the near-by Andoversford Junction Station, Great Western Railway, through which trains using Dowdeswell Station always have to pass?
§ Mr. WARDLEI understand that it is necessary that Dowdeswell Station should be kept open in connection with the working of through military and other trains.