For Railway Passengers Guidance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1914, Page 4

For Railway Passengers Guidance.

THE LOCAL TIME TABLE

Searching through a .railway timetable makes most people irritable. The railway lable* 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 hotcli potch Ox figures concerning the branch line of Toko, the tsid . track at Waggonville, or the 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 .-••- are now appended : —

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, and may v then work our, from the abo 76 figures, the time which the train will take to travel from the ita» tion immediately preceding. The Auckland express reaches Palmerston from the North, at .12.30 p.m., and arrives at Thorndon at 4.12 p.m. The Auckland express leaves Thorndon at 11.50 a.m. and reaches Palmerston» at :j.30 p, .m. The extra Auckland express commenced Ist October.

FROM WELLINGTON. ff.JT g §- TO WELLINGTON. m.m. a.m. a.m. . m. ».m. h „►§ cc a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Thorndon — 7.45 9.10 £.25 4.l5 p ® Palmerston 7.0 12. lo 2.03 3.37 5.C Paekakariki 6.40 9.7 10. 3S 11.15 6.2 & Tokomaru " * * . — " Waikanae * * — 11.50 * ST 5"! ° " E p c Makerua — — — — Te Horo * — " * * g" d 2 Shannon 8.5 2.0 ; 3.20 4.1(i (i.10 Otaki 7.50 9.50 11.24 12.20 7.0 g 5 | =■ Koputaroa • • • — Manakau * — * * " ' ° § Levin 8.39 2.42 3.54 4.42 (5.1:7 Ohau • " • " Ohau .:. ... Levin 8.50 10.21 11.56 1.5 7.44 '« | g Manakau ' ' ° — Koputaroa * * — * * S- p" a Otaki 9.25 3.25 4.21 0.1.3 7.4o Shannon 9.30 10.38 12.17 1.50 8.14 » ® s ff.£ Te Horo • — Makerua * — — " 0 ® Si 00 2 5 B' Waikanae • * — * * Tokomaru p . g Paekakariki 10.33 4.30 5.20 5.57 8.50 Palmerston (arrive) ... 10.45* 11.26 1.3 2.58 9.5 *g «*. § 2 §T| g Wellington 12.15 — 6.50 7.23 10.45 " Stops wh«a requested. •? aT"£®,F &■!=: •' * Stops where requested