TIMETABLE CHANGES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 11

TIMETABLE CHANGES

BAY OF PLENTY LINE FASTER AND BETTER SERVICE MAIN EXPRESSES UNALTERED Important alterations to the railway timetable in the Auckland district are to come into force shortly. The Taneatua express, which now leaves Auckland at 8.35 o’clock every morning, will not leave until 9 o’clock. The Rotorua express will leave at 10 o clock 'instead of 10.30 as at present. After long and careful consideration the railway authorities have decided not to alter the running of the 2 o'clock express from Wellington. This means, also, that the North express will not be altered. Many minor adjustments will have to be made to branch lines, and to the present schedule of goods trains to meet the altered running of the expresses. It is expected that the new timetable will come into force about the middle of next month. The object of the alterations is to give the Bay of Plenty a better and faster service and shorten the journey between Auckland and Taneatua, which is to be the terminus of tile express, instead of Tauranga, as at present. Goods traffic will also be better ac commodated. One ; > the new trains will leave Taura:(a at midnight and will _ enable passengers to catch the Limited at Frankton Junction the following morning and arrive in Auckland at 9.30 o’clock. Another train will leave Tauranga at 7.10 a.m. every day for Taneatua, taking forward goods which have arrived at Tauranga overnight from Auckland aud the Waikato. A return train will leave Taneatua each day at 1.15 p.m., reaching Tauranga at 6.15 p.m. Passengers will be accommodated on these trains, though they are primarly for goods. Several other alterations will be made in trains to and from Auckland and the Bay of Plenty, but these will not definitely be known until the final arrangements are made at headquarters in Wellington. BAY OF PLENTY CHANGES Under the new schedule there will be an express train for Taneatua leaving Auckland at 9 a.m. Previously the train, which carried traffic for the Bay of Plenty, left Auckland at 8 33 а. The new train will arrive at Taneatua at 7.32 p.m., thus giving passengers who wish to travel further down the Bay of Plenty time to reach their destinations at a reasonable hour. The express train making the return journey will leave Taneatua at 8 a.m., reaching Auckland at б. p.m. This schedule involves alteration to the goods train services. The 10.35 p.m. train running from Frankton Junction to Waihi has been extended to Tauranga, so that passengers leaving Auckland by the evening Main Trunk trains may go as far as Tau-l-anga on the same night. The present night train leaving Waihi at '3.10 a.m. for Frankton has also been extended to Tauranga, leaving there at midnight and enabling passengers to connect with the Limited. In addition to these Bay of Plenty service alterations it has been decided to readjust the Auckland-Rotorua timetable. The Rotorua express will leave Auckland at 10 a.m., and this in association with the Taneatua express will give an excellent time-table to the. Waikato. The train leaving Rotorua has also been put half an hour ahead, and will now reach Auckland at 3.40 p.m. There are a number of other alterations, the principal being 1 In connection with the runniug on Cambridge branch.