HOLIDAY RUSH

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 7

HOLIDAY RUSH

HEAVY BOOKINGS EXTRA TRAINS PUT ON The first special train carrying holiday-makers to the South will leave Auckland at 2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. This is an indication of the heavy railway traffic which is being expected for the Christmas and New Year holidays, and is the first train of its kind to be run during the rush period. Most of the expresses to the South for the few days before Christmas are filling rapidly. Some are already booked up. In all probability extra trains will be put on to carry the passengers. Following are the numbers of expresses which will leave Auckland for the South on the days preceding Christmas: December 21, three expresses; December 22, four expresses; December 23, four expresses; December 24, two Cypresses. Those arriving from Wellington will be: December 22, four expresses; December 23, four expresses; December 24, five expresses; Christmas Day, four expresses. As the trains fill extra carriages will be put on, and if there are sufficient passengers extra trains will be provided. On December 23 an extra express *ill leave Auckland at 9.15 for WhaBgarei, and at 10.30 p.m. on the same day a special train will * leave for Opua. At 10.30 p.m. on December 23, an extra train will leave for Rotorua, and “ ere again a special will be put on ? the number of travellers warrants It. Special trains from Whangarei in North, and Te Kuiti in the South, w ill reach Auckland in time for the faces and the holidays generally. Intending passengers should book [heir seats early, as the holiday rush expected to exceed any other year. Already the bookings have exceeded lh 2?. e at this time last yet%\ Time tables have been issued for the holidays, and the running times "ill be advertised. On Wednesday evening the Limited et ’t for Wellington without an empty scat. Usually the second express has oQ ly nine carriages, but on Wednesday evening it left with 13, which were all crowded. Last evining both expresses fun and extra accommodation Waa put on.