Sticks Up For N.Z. Rail Timetable
J (N.Z.P.A Reutsr- Covyright) .
Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, July 12. According to the Acting GeneralManager of the New Zealand Railways (Mr. E. H. Langford) in the course oi a lengthy letter pnblished in the Glasgow Ilerald, New Zealand trains axid raiiway services suffer little by comparison with those in Scotland. Mr. Langfo.rd's letter is in reply to. a eorrespondent of the Glasgow Heralci who, some time ago after a visit to the Dominion, wrote complaining about the slow timetables on the New Zealanci railways. After outlining the topographical ana engineering difficulties which had been overcome in the development of the New Zealand raiiway system, and comparing the running times of the Wel-lington-Napier expresses with those on equivalent Scottish lines, Mr. Langford concludes: "I have travelled on rtcoitish trains as well as on many others throughout the world and I have been just as cold, just as uncomfortable and have experienced just the same sort of irksome delays and inconveniences on your railways as on any other. Yet 1 oossoss the highest admiration for youi system and its administration. These problems are inseparable from travei ot any lcind and transport administratois the world over are striving under diffi2ult circumstanees, to resolve them. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 July 1949, Page 5
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