Lieut.-Commander Braithwaiteasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport how many special or relief passenger trains were run by the London and North-Eastern Railway from Liverpool Street to Southend-on-Sea and vice versa during the month of August, together with the approximate tonnage of coal thereby consumed?
§ Mr. Noel-BakerWhen the London and North-Eastern Railway Company prepared their time tables for the summer of 1943, Southend was banned to visitors. In consequence, the company only scheduled a skeleton service of trains. On 1st April, however, the ban was raised. Thereupon, the railway company put on two additional trains in each direction on weekdays and three in each direction on Saturdays and Sundays, between Liverpool Street and Southend. The total number of such trains run in August was 78 in each direction. They consumed about f3o tons of coal.