TRAIN STOPPING-PLACES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 195, 7 August 1908, Page 3

TRAIN STOPPING-PLACES

Mr. (Jkcy (says the Wellington Times) is on fairly safe ground in advocatii.fj •a reduction in' the rmiiiiug-tiiuc of the mail I rain, for be has not to fear the enthusiasm of Keibling, for instance, in the matter of lighting for all the stop-ping-places possible. To his query the '.Minister of Railways replied that he will give the question of the rumiugtime of the mail-train between Welling'tun and New Plymouth consideration when the timetable for the North island IMain Trunk railway is under review, but in this connection he emphasises" wlrit has lieen pointed out on.many previous occasions—namely, that the large number of stopping-places that are included 5n the timetable of the YYcUington-N.'w 'Plymouth express results ill a great loss of time. There are nt'pi'espnt no lew than th : rtv-three stopping-places in a jennicy of iVi miles. "When the time taken at these is eliminated from the existing journey-lime it means that the average speed of die train is thirty-five miles an hour, which is a very fair average. "The tendency among settlers," lie ililds. "is always ill the direction of demands for increasing rather than diminishing the number of stopping-place-, and dilliciiUies are thereby placed in the •way of any material improvements in the express-train services."'