TRAIN TO WHANGAREI.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4516, 17 January 1923, Page 2

TRAIN TO WHANGAREI.

FACILITIES APPRECIATED. DIFFICULT CONSTRUCTION WORK. A considerable number of travellers are now availing themselves of the through train service to Whangarei, as many as 300 making the journey a few days ago. The journey entails changing into four different trains in addition to a short but bumpy motor trip over what is known as “the gap.” It is anticipated that a through train will be making the journey within a month, though for some .time the speed at which the train will travel over certain newer portions of the line must necessarily be limited. Considerable difficulties are being experienced in connection with the track, which is obviously undergoing considerable sinkage in places, and according ,to one authority vzith whom a "Gazette” representative conversed two or three years may elapse before the whole line is definitely taken over by the Railways Deaprtment. Meanwhile, the fact of being able to travel through to Whangarei by train is benig greatly appreciated, both by' travellers and residents' of the north. It may be mentioned that no extra fares are charged for the motor journey across ‘t‘he gap,” though a great many walk t]be distance under the impression that a charge is made.