For Railway Passengers Guidance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 March 1914, Page 4

For Railway Passengers Guidance.

THE LOCAL TIME'TABLE

Sarching through a railway timetable makes most people irulable. The railway table, like polony, contains manythings, but the public prefer •.;« have the one particular food (whether mental or alimentary; desired on a given occasion, not a hotchpotch o'f 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 Palmerston North are what readers of The Horowhenua Chronicle need most, and for our readers' convenience those fir"*iv.s are now appended :—

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

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, ahd 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 Paliuerston 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 extra Auckland express commenced Ist October.

FROM WELLINGTON. a.m. a.m. a.m. . m. ».m. Thorndon — 7.45 9.10 6 25 4.l5 Paekakariki 6.40 9.7 10.36 11.16 G.'s Waikanae • • — 11.50 * Te Horo • _ • • * Otaki 7.50 9.52 11.20 12.20 7.0 Manakau * — 4 * • Ohau ... • • — • " Levin 8.50 10.21 11.56 1.5 7.44 Koputaroa e • — • • 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.

TO WELLINGTON. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. T\ilmerston 7.0 12.15 2.33 3.37 5.C Toknmaru ...... * * " — " Makerua — — — — " Shannon 8.0 £.0 3.2S 4.16 6.1i Koputaroa • * — * — Levin 8.39 2.42 3.54 4.42 (U7 Oh au - — Manakau • * ' — * Otaki 9.25 3.25 4.21 5.13 7.45 Te Horo * * — " * Waikanae * * — * Paekakariki 10.33 4.30 5.0 5.5 < 8.55 Wellington 12.15 8.35 6.50 7.23 10. 4o • Stops where requested