For Railway Passengers Guidance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 April 1914, Page 4

For Railway Passengers Guidance.

THE LOCAL TDIE TABLE. Sarching through a railway timetable makes most people irritable. The railway table, like the polony, contains good things, but the pub!;: pi^ <¥? to have the one pr;iu r (whether mental or a- - desired on a given occasion, r\\ %- hotch pot eh" 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 Paekakarik) and Palme rst on North are what readers of The Hprowhenua Chronicle need most, and for our readers' convenjence tli'.\so are now appended :—

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

As previously mentibMed, there are severn 1 wayside stations at which 0110 or pi ore of the above trains wil! 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, from the' abore figures, the time which the train will take to travel from the station immediately preceding. The Auckland express reaches from the North, at J2.40 p.m.,' and arrives at Thorndon at 4.7 p.m. The Auckland express leaves Thorndon at 12.15 p.m. and reaches Palmereton at 3.35 p.m. The extra Auckland express commenced Ist October.

FROM WELLINGTON. a.m. ' a.m. a.m. , m. p.m. Tliorndon — 7.45 9.10 & 25 4.l6 Paekakariki 6.40 9.7 10.36 11.15 6.* Waikanae * * — 11.50 * Te Horo * - " * Otaki ; 7.50 9.52 11.20 12.20 7.0 Manakau " — Oifau ' * Levin 8.50 10.21 11.56 1.5 7.44 Koputaroa * * — * " Shannon 9.30 10.48 12.11 1.56 8.14 Makerua 0 — • — " " Tokomaru . • " " " * Palmerston (arrive) ... 10.45 11.32 1.3 2.58 —- • Stops whin requested.

TO WELLINGTON. a.m.' p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Palmprston 7.0 12.15 2.33 3.3» 5.(> Toknmam * * * ~ MakiTtia — . - —. " Shannon S.O £.0 3.2b }.1(> G. Koputaroa * 6 — ° Levin S.39 2-42 oM 4.42 Ohau Maria kau * * " ~ 0 - . ,. Otaki 9.25 3.25 4.21 5.13 . t* Te Horo * * - * Waikanae * * " * , * ! Paekakoriki 10.33 4.30 5.0 ~ Wellington 3,2.15 8.35 6.50 7.23 10.45 * Stopp where requested