§ Mr. W. CARTERasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the alteration in the arrangements of the Mansfield Midland station, with a view to restricting the use of the platform to ticket-holders, was instituted to relieve the traffic on the platform, owing to the number of soldiers entering and leaving the town; and whether, seeing that there are only a very few soldiers entering and leav- 68W ing the town, the Railway Executive Committee will withdraw the restrictions, which cause inconvenience to the general public?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe restriction of the use of railway platforms to ticket-holders is a practice which is now commonly adopted by railway companies in the interest of travellers, and I am not prepared to ask companies to discontinue arrangements of this kind which they have made.