For Railway Passengers Guidance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 April 1914, Page 4

For Railway Passengers Guidance.

♦ THE LOCAL TIME TABLE. Sarching through a railway timetable makes most people irritable. The railway table, like the polony, contains many good things, bi£:Jl!O public prefer to have flu? particular food (whether iue~%' or alimentary) desired on a #«vc- 1 * occasion, not a hotchpotch v§ liyures concerning the branch, rme of Toko, the side track at Waggonville, or the crosa line to Neverularch. 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 fi?'"ive 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 stations.

As previously mentioned, there are several wayside stations ut which one or more of the above trains will stop whenever passen* gers 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 abowj figures, the time which the train will take to travel from the station immediately preceding. The Auckland express reachei 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 let October.

FROM WELLINGTON. a.m. a.m. a.m. ,. m. ».m. Thorndon - 7.45 9.10 ' 6.26 4.16 Paekakariki 6.40 9.7 10.36 11.15 6.£ Waikanae * m — I 1 - 60 * Te Horo • - ' • • Otaki T.50 9.52 11.20 12.20 7.0 Manakau * — * Ohau * — Levin 8.50 10.21 11.56 1.5 7.41 Koputaroa * • — - e " Shannon 9.30 10.48 12.11 1.56 8.14 Makerua • — — • .. • Tokomani • • • • • (arrive) ... 10.45 11.32 1.3 2.68 ~ * Stops requested.

TO WELLIN liTO A. 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.( 3.28 4.16 0.12 Koputaroa * * — * — Levin . . 8.39 2.4* 3.54 4.42 0.47 Ohau " • ■ — * Manakau e • " • _ • Otaki 9.25 3.25 4.21 5.13 r .M5 Te Horo • • — ' Waikanae e * — . * * Paekakariki 10.33 4.30 5.0 5.57 8.55 Wellington 12.15 8.35 6.50 7.23 10.45 • Stops w\iere requestpd