The whole Irish travelling public, and also our friends who visit us from the other side of the water, and so often go to the West, will be glad to learn, from letters in our columns to-day, that the intervention of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce has led to the more speedy perfecting of the arrangement between the Midland Company and the Dublin and Wicklow by which the trains of the former will run through from Kingstown and the mail-boats to Broadstone and from Broadstone to Kingstown. This arrangement was all through admitted by the Midland Company to be most desirable for the purposes of the tourist traffic and the accommodation of their Western friends, and they justify themselves successfully in their letter of the 30th of March against any charge of unnecessary delay. We see no advantage to be derived, however, from now discussing the question of who was to blame, seeing that the arrangement has been completed through the readiness of the Midland Directors to comply with the public sentiment, and bring the improvement into effect at once. In a few days now the route from London to Galway will be continuous and complete by rail, boat, and rail, and also from London to Westport and Achill, and to Sligo and other places of the highest interest on the Midland system.
The Irish Times, April 7th, 1899.