BALCLUTHA RAIWAY STATION.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 195, 5 April 1878, Page 6

BALCLUTHA RAIWAY STATION.

TO THE.. EDITOR. Sir, — "Vk-hen the B.ilclutha Ftntion was opened was very gonerally thought to ''op, like 'lie ■engine and goods sheds, in an -mifhu.-'br-d co-.i---clition, and wonlri be complete,! nrevlou*? to ilie 'contractor's 'nihility . ceannsj. Buh 'it ayi-pcars *that aU who worn of this opinion labour- d u-ider "a delusion, '"for the platform, or, to speak more -correctly,, the gravel -Vd, as at present formed. "is all that the railway aufchoiities api^.r to consider necessary for the accommodation of the "public at the most imr-oitnnt station between 'Dunedm and Invercargill. This uncomfortable - suhstrahim fc no less than one foot one inch "Tielow the step of the carriages, and two feot two inches below the floors, thereby tending seriously 'to increase tbe liability to accident, which may - * cause a heavy drain on tbe public purse. Tt also " increases to a very great degree the labour at- * tached to moving lng2:ige, more particularly heavy packages, which necessitate the aid of tin'porter's truck, nnd completely disposes of "the 'idea of railway despatch being synonymous with - speed. Attention Khnuld. also be directed to the 'fact that although the engine-shed is now com- ~ pleted, the want of which was woviously made the excuse, neither the early morning train nor ' the night one come nearer than Stirling, thus ' causing these traius to be useless to the public "'* further south. There are several other matters "in the same connection that could he mentioned, "hut as by asking too much one sometimes gets nothing, it will doubtless be advisable to place prominently only what is absolutely requisite for "both safety and convenience. — I am, &c. , Z.Y.X.