§ Captain EDGEasked the President of the Board of Trade whether the Railway Executive are aware of the inconvenience caused by the abandonment, during the War, of direct communication between 785W East and Mid Lancashire and the South of England by way of Stockport; that numbers of soldiers on leave and duty have to tramp at all hours across Manchester, whereby they experience difficulty and delay in reaching their homes; and whether the Executive will now re-establish pre-war conditions of railway working in this particular respect?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe Railway Executive Committee are making special inquiries in this, matter, and I will let the hon. and gallant Member know the result so soon as I am in a position to do so.