RAILWAY SERVICES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 282, 25 August 1919, Page 6

RAILWAY SERVICES

IMPROVEMENTS BEING EFFECTED THE THROUGH TRAINS Ifuither explanation of the proposals of tho Railway Department for tho limited reinstatement of railway services is contained in a statement handed to the Prime -Minister .by the Minister of -'•TJaiUvajs.. The particulars given are as "'"'A' passenger train leavinj Invercargill q» Monday, August 25, for. Dunedin. (This train 'is, of course, contingent upon , tho floods .having subsided in the meanJam©, '•••-A-passenger ttain from .Dunedin to -.' .Chriatohuron on Tuesday, August 2G. Prom 'Auoklond to Wellington, leaving iUiokl&nd at 7.10 p.m.on Tuesday evon--"ljEff, August p. ■ ■ ..1' Frtm .Wellington to New Plymouth ■ :>Tuesday, 28th, on tinia of the Wellington•'•i'jTow Plymouth mail train,- with a con--'■••neoting train from Palmerston North .to f . It Is intended to run return ser-'-vices in the qpposife direction aa followf-* ' Eroni Wellington to leaving Wellington at midday on Thursday, August 28. From New Plymouth to Wellington cii yhtrnday, ?Bth, with' conneoting train -'' from Napjer to PaJmerston North, I'lom Ghristchuroh tq Dunedin on' Thursday, 28th. •' j&om Dunedin to .Invercargill on Frikfei*, 29 th. i It i 3 hoped;' to 'be able to continue series on these lines regularly hereafter,, end in qonneotion therewith opportunity 1 is'being taien. to utilise the return eer- ; vices- ot these passenger trains for increasing the haulage of goods, and in connection with this aspect of the matter; the is making arrangement? to undertake the carriage of a ' quantity of urgent timber from the principal eawmilling areas. It is perhaps hardly necessary to emphasise the fact that the coal position still far from satisfactory (the statejrjjejit continues), and the extent to iwhich the Department will bo enabled |;to. carry out its prosent intentions of exI tending the facilities as communicatcd "herein is largely; dependent upon the 'present coal position being fully maintained and unproved. |n view of tho extra passenger traffic this .week, in connection with the assembling of Parliament, arrangements era being made to run an additional passenger train from New Plymouth to Wellington on Tuesday, with a connecting train from Napier to Palmerston IJot'th.