HUTT RAILWAY CARRIAGES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. SIE, —Have you travelled lately on that masterpiece of engineering construction, the Hutt railway ? If you have, you will like myself have suffered from the miserable apology for carriages in use at present on the line. The manner in which they rattle, shake, and quiver is, in colonial parlance, a “ caution.” The socalled first-class carriages are simply a disgrace to any line; the moat “ ramshackled ” town draw in Wellington is not more uncomfortable to ride in, and the most shaky wornout Cobb’s coach a down couch in comparison. If it is necessary to import such specimens of rolling stock from England, our local carriage builders must indeed be duffers. The so-called carriages are in fact tumbling to pieces already. Cheapness has certainly to be studied, but the economy is doubtful : and somebody must either have had a big tip to pass them, or did not know his business. The discomfort of the carriages, combined with the high charges, are certainly not calculated to induce people to travel on the line or make it a success. If you have not travelled on the line take “ Punch’s” advice, “ don’t.”—l am, &c., Traveller.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18770418.2.17
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5013, 18 April 1877, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
201HUTT RAILWAY CARRIAGES. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5013, 18 April 1877, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in