HUTT VALLEY TRAINS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 209, 28 May 1908, Page 7

HUTT VALLEY TRAINS.

. IMPROVED" 'SERVICE.'" " Somo important railway concessions havo been granted on the Hutt lino; .following upon representations mado by Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P.- . On and after. Monday, June 1, the motortrains between tho and .-Upper' Hutt will run as fotfows:—Lower. Hutt,dep. 9.33 a.m. daily; r.ol'p.ni. andi7.B p.m., Saturdays only; 3.0 p.m;-'and "5.38" p.m., r daily, except 'Saturdays. Trains will leave the Upper Hutt for tho Lower Hutt daily at 6.22"12.40 .p.m.,. and 4.37 p.m. ,» ; •' " All these trains will stop at Melhng tloment (whore the Government lias acquired proporty for workmen's homes), GossoVSiding, Pitcaithloy's Siding, Turner's Siding, south end of Silverstreahi bridge, and at tho •Heretaunga golf links.. The'present 9.6. a.m. train from Wellington to Lower Hutt will leave two minutes earlier—that is to say,. 9.4 a'.m. , • V ' ' ' Tho faros will bo charged on the actual distances travelled in all cases. There aro,' under tho now arrangement, five extra st-opping-places between Lower • Hutt and Upper Hutt. . Theso additional "stops", should 'be a'great convenience to settlers. , Oil and after Sunday, June 7, thero will bo an alteration in tho running of trains on Sundays between To Aro and Lower Hutt. Tho present 5 p.m. Lower' Hutt to Tc Aro train leaving at 4.50 p.m...wi1l run teal minutes earlier tlian at present, and inst-ead of the 6.35 p.m. train from To Aro to Lower Hutt, a train will leave To Aro at 5.34 and ' Wellington at 5.46 p.m. for Lower Hutt. Mr. Wilford also asked 1 "-for , certain other concessions which havo .hot yet been granted, viz., extra carriages on'tho workers tram I from Lower Hutt and Potone in tho early. mornin"; ail additional workers tram half ' an hour later, so that young wonien coming ; int-o tlieir employments in tho city need not 1 wiifc half-an-hoiir before tho business cstabf lishments opcrf: extra carriages oil tho 1.10 • n.m. train from Wellington, on Smidays", so 5 that visitors to tlio Hospital and others 3 might return to their homos in the,, Hutt ■ Valley in tirno for tea. '