Holiday Rush
BUSTLE AT AUCKLAND RAILWAY STATION TRAINS CROWDED Porters perspiring behind mountainous trucks of luggage. Men and women asking railway officials endless questions about places and times and belongings. Thousands of people, sitting on their luggage waiting for trains. Christmas has arrived at the Auckland Railway Station. From the porters to the stationmaster, everybody turned to, to assist the travelling public of New Zealand today. Crowds of holiday-makers are pouring into the City for the Christmas and New Year vacation. During the week-end the Auckland staff has been kept busy coping with a heavy volume of arrivals and departures on both local and express trains. From Friday last the two regular expresses from Auckland to Wellington are being supplemented by a third, leaving at 8.40 p.m., continuing until Christmas Eve and resuming on January 2, 3 and 5. A third express is also being run from Wellington during this period and supplementary expresses are being run on the Rotorua line until January 7. The special train to Rotorua yesterday carried about 250 passengers and about the same number arrived on the incoming train. A special express running to Wellington on Saturday evening had 17 cars, carrying a full complement of passengers, while the regular expresses for Wellington last evening, each of 18 cars, were fully loaded and the special of 17 cars also carried a full load of passengers. Suburban lines were also busy over the weekend. An extra express will leave Auckland for Whangarei at 9.15 a.m. and Whangarei for Auckland at 12.50 p.m. today and tomorrow and on January 4. From Te Kuitl an extra express Will run to Auckland at 6.50 p.m. today and tomorrow and on December 31. The Frankton Junction to Auckland service is being supplemented by the running of an extra express, leaving daily at 8.27 p.m. until January 4.
On Christmas Eve special trains will leave Auckland for Opua at 10.30 p.m., for Tauranga at 10 p.m., and for Rotorua at 10.20 p.m. Inward trains will run from Opua at 8.15 p.m. and from Hamilton at 5.43 p.m. On Christmas Day the daylight Limited expresses will not run, but the other expresses will be dispatched as usual.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 853, 23 December 1929, Page 1
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