asked the Minister of War Transport the number of passengers carried per day on the Glasgow-Lesmahagow and Coalburn route during the week ended 1st September, 1945, and the corresponding week in 1939.

Following is the answer:

	"1945 Week ending 1st September	1939 Week ending 2nd September
Sunday	6,835	6,108
Monday	12,338	8,334
Tuesday	12,036	7,854
Wednesday	11,466	8,340
Thursday	11,786	8,276
Friday	12,524	9,819
Saturday	13,632	10,821
	80,617	59,552

The percentage increase on the Coalburn service was 35.4 compared with an overall increase of 38.1 on all the Company's services in the Lark-hall area