Train Overcrowding

EDM number 941 in 1998-99, proposed by John P Smith on 25/10/1999.

That this House notes the incident on the 10 a.m. Paddington to Swansea train on Saturday, 23rd October, when over 1,000 passengers boarded a train designed to carry fewer than 450 persons; notes that in the interests of passenger safety, the drivers refused to stop the train beyond Reading at Bristol and Newport station to take on more passengers; and calls upon the Government as a matter of urgency, to consider introducing a limit on the numbers of people who can travel on passenger trains.

This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.