§ Mr. LYLEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport the frequency with which trains are now-run on the tube railways of London in business hours; whether, when the Select Committee on London Traffic reported, it was stated that trains were run with a frequency which reached the maximum capacity of the lines; and whether it is now quite common for five minutes or more to elapse between any two trains on the tube railways, even during the peak hours?
§ Mr. NEALThe booked intervals between trains on the Underground Railways during peak load hours vary from 1| to 2Jj minutes, and any greater interval is abnormal and due to delay to an individual train. I have not been able to trace the statement mentioned in the second part of the question.