§ Sir J. FERGUSONasked the Minister of Transport if his attention has been directed to the dangerous practice of leaving carriage doors unclosed on the District Railway trains from Hounslow to the City, causing risk to school children and inconvenience to other passengers; and will he be prepared to enforce by law that all electric trains have automatic closing doors?
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§ Mr. PYBUSI have communicated with the railway company concerned. They are aware that railway carriage doors are occasionally left open as a result, for instance, of the carriages being entered, after the signal to start has been given, by passengers who fail to close the doors. As at present advised, I do not think that it would be practicable to require that all electric trains should be equipped with automatic closing doors.