RAILWAYS IN WAR TIME

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2270, 2 October 1914, Page 5

RAILWAYS IN WAR TIME

HOW TOURISTS HAD TO DO IN PARIS.

On August 6, Messrs. T. Qook and Son., the tourist agents, received the following advice from Paris (which ap- • plied to the thousands of English and American people who wished to .leave Franco for England at once): — "Paris to Havre and Dieppe. Trains leave Paris (St. Lazare Station) for Havre and Dieppe as follow: —5.33 a.m., 9.33 a.m., 3.83 p.m., and' 9.33 p.m. Passengers must change at Rouen for Dieppe. Numbers which are distri- ' buted from a special office in the Rue d'Amsterdam must bo obtained, and on receipt of same people are allowed to enter the station, and must present themselves in numerical order to Gui-» chet Nos. 4 and 6, open from 12 o'clock to 6 p.m., where they can buy their ;ickets. Those already holding coupons wiH here have the same endorsed with the time of the first train by which they can leave. Three hundred passengers are taken in each train. For the present passengers have to buy tickets one day ahead." Somewhat similar arrangements applied to trains leaving Paris for Calais, Boulogne, Bordeaux, and Toulouse. The final paragraph in the order states that "authority to travel in these military trains is issued at these military stations the previous day." The whole of the British railway systems were taken over from the morning of August 5, and from that date on tourist agencies had to render their accounts to the Government instead of the railway companies.