A RAILWAY SCANDAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1434, 8 May 1912, Page 4

A RAILWAY SCANDAL.

Sir, —AVo often hear about our suburban railways, but Din Wollinslan-lohnsonvilio sill-urban railway service nii(.rh 1. well termed "The Disgraco of (be liailways." Last Monday a small goods train, with much struggling, gut n.s far as llio bridge at Khandallah, ami there it blew ami snorted for livo minutes ami at last crawled'oil to .lohnsonvilla, having delayed (ho O.SO p.m. (rain twenty minutes. That; 5.20 (rain look forty minutes to go to Klian-ilnilnli—!c-ss tli.tii live miles. On Saturday die!.'2o p.m. train left for Johnsonville; it got to Ngaio by chance, and then started on its journey t? Khandallah. One man missed tho train nt Ngaio. He v,-alkc<l along the road, climbed a bank, and stepped upon the train as (hough he did it every day. Another man's hat blew cff. He stepped off the tram walked back, picked up his bat, and actually walked to the carriage platform he had bfen standing upon, and got on again. The jiassen;;;rs arrived at Khamlaliah, after being bumped about in Ihoir wals for thiriylive weary minutes. Theso are two instnuees in one week, and there were others, but .-.pace will nut permit me to record them. ■JVe nil believe the new Minister for Railways tn lie a capable man. lie eanuot have a better chance of showing what his capabilities are, for ou this lino he has the worst suburban service in Australasia, if not south of the. Line, to practice on, —1 am, etc., i KHANDALLAH.