RAILWAY MUDDLEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 4

RAILWAY MUDDLEMENT.

Sir,—l was; interested to read in your publication!of this morning's date a letter under the heading of "Railway Muddlement," signed by "A Puzzled Passenger." What he has stated is perfectly correct, and there are many puzzled passengers who travel by the suburban lines who. would be-only,too glad to know who' is _ responsible . for. the extraordinary things that take..place in our railway management., Why at any rate one quick train in the morning cannot be ran from the Upper Hutt to Wellington has, long been a question exercising the minds of the many people who come into town to business from" that district./ .The traffic has increased considerably /pi late yeaTS,' and yet apparently no effort has been made to run.a train to 'meet the requirements, and convenience of the'people who use it, though many requisitions and deputations have waited upon the railway authorities with this object in view. ...A. proof of. this want of consideration is that, as your correspondent points out, the time taken from the Upper Hutt to Wellington': is now .no quicker than it was fifteen years ago. Why some of the officials who frame the time-table do not take a journey by some of the' trains and ascertain-by their own.personal experience . the many improvements that might be made in the running of' the trains for the convenience and in the interests of the travelling public is inexplicable; ■ and can only be accounted■! 'for by the fact that they are either too indolent, or not sufficiently interested in their work to use every effort to make it a credit to themselves and the Department they are • connected with.—l am,' etc.,. ANOTHER PUZZLED: PASSENGER. Wellington, sth April, 1910:- ;'