HC Deb 19 November 1958 vol 595 c168W
108. Mr. Gower

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if, in his re-examination of the money to be made available for the British Transport Commission, he will give careful consideration to an increase in the modernisation pro-gramme of British Railways in Wales to accord with Government policy of giving special assistance to areas in Wales where unemployment is above the average for the United Kingdom as a whole.

Mr. Watkinson

Additional capital investment has already been authorised for British Railways in 1959. Full weight is given to the needs of Wales, as of other parts of Great Britain, for an efficient and economic railway system.

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