For Railway Passengers Guidance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 April 1914, Page 4

For Railway Passengers Guidance.

THE LOCAL TIME TABLE."

Sarching through a railway timetable makes most people irritable. The railway table, polony, contains many >gfpod 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 track at Wagg&nville, or the cross line to Nevermarch. The particular figures likely to be of benefit to dwellers between Paekakariki and Palmerstbn North are what readers of The- Horowhenua Chronicle need most, and for our readers' convenience those fiV'iv? are now appended:—

Some of the al>ove 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.

As previously inentWed, there arc several wayside stations »t 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 theii- towns, and may, then work out, irom the abbfe figures, the time which, the train will take to travel from the station immediately preceding, n "P 16 Auc kl&ncl 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 extra Auckland express commenced Ist October.

FROM WELLINGTON. a.m. a.m. a.m. . m. ».m. Thomdon — 7.45 9.10 & 25 4.15 Paekakwriki 6.40 9.7 10.36 11.15 6.V Waikanae ...... * • — 11.50 • 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 1.56 8.14 Makerua ... ... ... • — j — ' • • Tokomaru ... • • • • • * Palmerston (arrive) ... 10.46 11.32 1.3 2.68 "Stops whan requested.

TO WELLINGTON. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Palmerston 7.0 12.15 2.33 3.37 5.C Tokomaru * • • __ * ■Makerna ' ■=•— — — — • Shannon 8.0 2.0 3.28 4.16. 6.1U Koputaroa * • • — Levin 8.39 2.42 .8.54 4.42 6.47 Ohau • " • • • Manakau ...... * • * • Otaki 9.25 3.25 4.21 5.13 :.45 Te Horo , • • . . • 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