His funeral, I
need not say, was attended by railway men from all parts of the kingdom.
I was one of those who travelled to London to follow his remains to their
resting place.
Further public railway legislation was enacted in 1893 and 1894, and four
important Acts were passed. The first was the _Railway Regulation Act_,
1893. It dealt with the hours of labour of railway servants, a subject
which for some time previously had been enjoying the attention of the
Press. It culminated in the appointment of a Parliamentary Committee. In
February, 1891, a Select Committee, consisting of 24 members, with Sir
Michael Hicks Beach as chairman, was formed, "To inquire whether, and if
so, in what way, the hours of railway servants should be restricted by
legislation." The Committee examined numerous railway servants and
officials, and reported to Parliament, in June, 1892. I was summoned by
the Committee to give evidence and appeared before them in London on 24th
March of that year. My business was to furnish facts concerning the
hours of duty of the employees on my own railway and the conditions of
their work.
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