For Railway Passengers Guidance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 February 1914, Page 4

For Railway Passengers Guidance.

; THE LOCAL TIME TABLE. j Sarching through a railway ( timetable makes most people irritable. The railway table, like the polony, contains many good things, but the public prefer to have the one- particular food (whether mental or alimentary) desired on a given occasion, not a hotchpotch oi figures concerning the bran"h line of Toko, the side track at Waggonville, or the cross line to Nevcrmarch. The particular 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 are now appended:— '

Some of the above trains will stop at intermediate stations, such as Tokornaru, 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.

As previously mentioned, there are several wayside stations ui 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, Irom the aboee figures, the time which the traic 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 af 8.35 p.m. The extra Auckland express commenced Ist October.

TO WELLINGTON. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Palmerston 7.0 12.15 2.33 3.37 5.C Tokomaru * * * — * Makerua — — . — — * Shannon 8.0 2.0 3.28 4.16 6.12 Koputaroa * * — * — Levin 8.39 2.42 3.54 4.42 6.47 Ohau ■ M • ■ — * Manakau * * * — * Otaki 9.25 3.25 4.21 5.13 7.45 Te Eoro • ■ • _ • Waikanae ... ... * * — * * Paekakariki 10.33 4.30 5.0 5.57 8.55 Wellington 12.15 8.35 6.50 7.23 10.45 : * Stops where requested

FROM WELLINGTON. : a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. i Thorndon — 7.45 9.10 9.25 4.L5 j Paekakariki 6.40 9.7 10.36' 11.15 6.2 , . Waikanae * • — 11.50 * i Te Horo • — • * • j • Otaki 7.50 9.52 11.20 12.20 7.0 j Manakau • — * •. • Ohau • • — • ■ . Levin 8.50 10.21 11.56 1.5 7.44 ' Xoputaroa * • — * ■ Shannon ... 9.30 10.48 12.11 1.56 8.14 ' Makerua • — — • \ • . Tokomaru . • • • • • Palmerston (arrive) ... 10.45 11.32 1.3 2.68 • Stops when requested.