For Railway Passengers Guidance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 January 1914, Page 2

For Railway Passengers Guidance.

— —« ' THE LOCAL TIME TABLE. I Sarching through a railway timetable makes most people irritable. The railway table, like the polony, contains many good i things, but the public prefer to have the one particular food (whether mental or alimentary) desired on a given occasion, not a hotchpotch Ox figures concerning | the branch line of Toko, the side I track at Waggonville, or the cross I line to Nevermarch. The parti- ! cular figures likely to be of benefit to dwellers between Paekakariki and Palmerston North are what readers of The Horowhenua Chronicle need most, and for our readers' convenience those fisprse are now appended:—

As previously mentioned, there are several wayside stations at. which one or more of the above trains will stop whenever passengers desire to be set down or taken up. Local residents may ascertain which are the trains which cater for their towns, and may then work out, from the above figures, the time which the train will take to travel from the station immediately preceding. The Auckland express reaches Palmerston from the North, at J2.40 p.m., and arrives at Thorndon at 4.7 p.m. The Auckland express leaves Thorndon at 12.15 p.m. and reaches Palmerston at 8.35 p.m. The extra Auckland express commenced Ist October.

FROM WELLINGTON. g-.-rgSH-S. TO WELLINGTON. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. £ 5-* „►§ cp a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Thorndon — 7.45 9.10 9.25 4.15 £*£ g.F'g'S 3 *! Pnlmereton 7.0 12.15 2.33 3.37 5.C Paekakariki 6.40 9.7 10.36 11.15 6.2 * g.p-3 gf.-.* Tokomaru * * * — Waikanae * • — 11.50 • gg: °;S2o Makerua — — — — Te Horo • — • * * Shannon 8.0 2.0 3.28 4.16 6.12 ' Otaki 7.50 9.52 11.20 12.20 7.0 g p.g - | g- Koputaroa * * - * — ' Manakau * — * • • ' °g £*o~ e , Levin 8.39 2.42 3.54 4.42 6.47 Levin , 8.50 10.21 11.56 1.5 7.44 *s | £ g,£ £ § Manakau •••__• Koputaroa * • - — • • g. EL*" f ffl Otaki • ... ... 9.25 3.25 4.21 5.13 7.45 Shannon 9.30 10.48 12.11 1.56 8.14 Te Horo • * .— • * Makerua • — — • • jf £» |- Waikanae • •' — * • Tokomaru • • • • • ** &Z fL~ m Paekakariki 10.33 4.30 5.0 5.57 8.55 Paimerston (arrive) ... 10.45 11.32 1.3 2.68 -- •§ | gf g % Wellington 12.15 8.35 6.50 7.23 10.45 •Stops when requested. ?©£§<?»*£ * Stops where requested