HC Deb 22 February 1982 vol 18 c319W
Mr. Gordon Wilson

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will introduce legislation to create no-drinking compartments on trains.

Mr. David Howell

No. The British Railways Board already has power under section 67 of the Transport Act 1962 to make byelaws regulating travel and maintenance of order on its railways and have made a byelaw which enables it to ban alcohol on trains previously designated as "dry".