OUR MAIL TRAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 89, 15 December 1913, Page 3

OUR MAIL TRAIN.

"SPEEDING UP" WANTED. Recently a deputation consisting of Messrs Campbell (Hawke's Bay) and H. Okey, M.P. (Taranaki). waited on Mr E. H. Hiley, General Manager of Railways, and urged on him the necessity for "speeding-up" the mail trains between Napier and Wellington and New Plymouth and Wellington, and asked him to keep the matter in view when arranging any readjustment of the railway time-table. Mr Hiley expressed himself as having been impressed with the amouni 'of time taken up at various stations on the routes mentioned. He was ai present endeavoring to obtai nfrom a number of stationmasters an estimatr of the minimum time required to clear a "train from thir stations. Ho also recognised that, despite improvement which had been made to the lines, tin speed limit between many of the stations had not been increased in the last 20 years. He was obtaining ex pert information regarding the vari bus trains. He could not give at present a definite answer, but he was in full sympathy with the proposals. Mr Campbell suggested that the New Plymouth and Napier train? which now left Wellington within oik and a-half hours of each other should be combined and run to Palmerstor North with ! tine : of the large engines, and divided at Palmefston. This could be done with the down ..train from different places. Mr Hiley'promised to consider the suggestion; ''