EXTRA EXPRESSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 839, 6 December 1929, Page 16

EXTRA EXPRESSES

TRAIN ARRANGEMENTS FOR CHRISTMAS

LIMITED EXPRESS FOR ROTORUA

From December 20 to January 7 many extra expresses will cope with holiday traffic. Though in the main the arrangements are similar to those of last year, the running of an extra express each way between Auckland and Rotorua daily during the holiday period, will be an innovation. The Main Trunk expresses from Auckland will be supplemented by a third leaving at 8.40 p.m. on December 20, 22, 23, 24 and January 2, 3 and 5. On Saturday, December 21, when normally no express would run, one will leave Auckland at 7.40 p.m. From Wellington, for Auckland, an expresse will leave at 3.34 p.m. on December 20, 21, 23, 24 and 26, and January 2, 3 and 4. A further addition to the service will be made by an express leaving Wellington at 8.30 p.m. on December 22, 23 and 24. The Daylight Limited expresses will not be dispatched on Christmas Day, though the other expresses will run as usual. On Christmas Eve, December 24, special trains will leave Auckland as follow:—For Opua, 10.30 p.m.; for Tauranga, 10 p.m.,; for Rotorua, 10.20 p.m. Inward trains will ;un fr.om Opua at 8.15 p.m. and from Hamilton at 5.43 p.m. Supplementary expresses on the Rotorua line will leave Auckland at 10.40 a.m. and Rotorua at 9.55 a.m. on December 21, 23, 24, 26, 27. 28, 30, 31, and January 1,2, 3,4, 6, 7. These will be limited trains, stopping only at Newmarket Mercer, Frankton Junction, Morrinsville, and Putaruru, only about a third of the places at which the ordinary expresses stop. The duplication of the service will enable the department to cope with increased traffic expected on the Rotorua run, and will remove the necessity to a.ttach a second engine to the ordinary express, as was necessary last year, when the train was expanded into a very heavy one during the rush period. The extra express will be able to run to a faster time-table, and the usual one will not be so liable to delay owing to heavy loading. An extra express will leave Auckland at 9.15 a.m. for Whangarei, and Whangarei for Auckland at 12.50 p.m. on December 21, 23 and 24 and January 4. From Te Kuiti an extra express will leave for Auckland at 6.50 p.m. on December 23, 24 and 31. The Frankton Junction to Auckland service will be supplemented by the running of an extra express leaving at 8.27 p.m. on December 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 31, and January 1,2, 3 and 4.