For Railway Passengers Guidance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 February 1914, Page 4

For Railway Passengers Guidance.

I + ' THE LOCAL TIME TABLE. i Sarcliing through a railway timetable makes irritable. The railway the I polony, contains *k*,sf^ : . things, but the public" have the one particular food ' (whether mental or alimentary) desired on a given occasion, not a botch potch ox figures concerning the branch line of Toko, the side track at Waggonville, or the cross line to Nevermarch. The particular figures likely to be of benefit to dwellers between Paekakariki and Palinerston North are what readers of The Horowkenua Cin'onicle need most, and for our readers' convenience those fiif"r.*s are now appended:—

TO WELLINGTON. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Palmerston 7.0 12.15 2.33 3.37 5.G Tokomaru ** * _ * Makerua — — — — * Shannon 8.0 2.0 3.28 4.16 6.12 Koputaro# * * — * — Levin . , ... ~. 8.39 2.42 3.54 4.42 6.47 Okau 'u • _• * Manakau ...... •* * — * Otaki 9.25 3.25 4.21 5.13 7.45 Te Horo • • _• * Waikanae * • —* • Paekakariki 10.33 4.30 5.0 5.57 8.50 Wellington 12.15 8.35 6.50 7.23 10.45 * Stops whore requested

Some of tiie above trainß will stop at intermediate stations, such as Tokomaru, Ohau, Manakau, Te Horo, etc.; but there ',re pome which do not. Residents should • acquaint themselves with the trains which do stop at their particular stations.

FROM WELLINGTON. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. ».m. Tliorndon —■ 7.45 9.10 9.25 4.1.5 Paekakariki 6.40 9.7 10.36 11.15 6.2 Waikanae ..; ...» * — 11.60 • Te Horo • .—• ' * • Otaki 7.50 9.52 11.20 12.20 7.0 Manakau * —. *• • Ohau ■• • _• • Levin 8.50 10.21 11.56 1.5 7.44 Koputaroa • • —• • Shannon - 9.30 10:48 12,11 1.66 8.14 Makerua • —— • * Tokomaru • • • • • Pahnerston (arrive) ... 10.45 11.32 1.3 2.68 • Stops when requested.

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 then' towns, and may then work out, srom 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 12.40 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 3.35 p.m. The estra Auckland express commenced Ist October.