§ Mr. LANSBURYasked the. Minister of Transport whether his Department, in collaboration with the London Passenger Transport Board, has given any recent consideration to the proposal to construct a tube railway from the City along Commercial and East India Dock Roads around the docks to Canning Town, then to Silvertown and, ultimately, to districts at present unserved by any convenient railway facilities in that part of London?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThe London Passenger Transport Board inform me that they have considered proposals of this kind but are not able to adopt them. 1425W They state, however, that it is their intention to institute, early next year, a new service of through trains between the Metropolitan line and Barking which, in addition to affording a new connection, will increase the facilities between the City and Stepney, Bow, Bromley, West Ham, Barking and the surrounding districts. They also say that in connection with the scheme now before Parliament for a new tube railway from Liverpool Street to Bethnal Green, Mile End and Stratford, it is proposed that interchange facilities shall be provided at Stratford between this railway and the London and North Eastern Railway trains to and from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street, including those serving Canning Town, Silvertown and North Woolwich.