SPEEDING UP TRAINS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 86, 7 September 1914, Page 2

SPEEDING UP TRAINS.

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; The. 'Oneral ilannirci-; -at ! (j.Yir. 10. 1.1.. ; hil.iH;.);iiu-lU(l l :,;.;5u.■!:>-■ .rc- | iV'-rt to Parliament .some imporl.-.m ,il- : titrations in the timor.tab'e wiiieli an; t.i, i t-.bmkvin'to force on November lsi. in:; I r! port, in ibis conn, tc I ion, says:--•"J'lie, tijiie-.taVk to. Ik; lu-oiiL-h.;,. into force,on .Novtin'ix'r: I.st J .wiU curtail m-i----flerialiy the ■time occupied in. transit j between • Wellington and Auckland (1 hour •>» luinu'U.'*)., and: u-"ellingt>/ii aad jiNapier, (u4 minutes), and ell'c.ct-SQiiio i improvement between '''Weliiugton' and j Now Plymouth (3'J minute*): arid olli«.r : stations..in .the Xorl-h Islan+l', - <bm, it j can only be regarded as- a first.revision. I Tlie time-table, will again be revised m | ,ifew ni-.iitlis from-the-dalaalrcudy ojtained' and from, actual cxpwiem e of. ihe working of the November'ru-tijiiiirr.-"AdditioiKil eros-.ing-places' anil, some • duplications are necessary, as wr-M as '; regradiii;r, ..before a satisfactory., i train service can be run between Wellington and Auckland.' Jn the.'revision 1 now (imteirfplatcd the economy ■■Va time • has been mainly .ellc'ctcd by sa'viiv^tiiiiu. lat stations and 'toy rearrangement ot ] f lie rflieilule. sp . llia.t .crossing "„etween '; oppc-ing trains nuiy. be elTcfcted with i ltys ivaiting time; ' :. | "The data obtained, which "wi:] he ! useful for future tijpe-table revisions, lirinf.s out very clearly -lilts" extent' to uliieh t.iie running of-the tHK'silh-u vx"prtss trains is spoilt l by, stops at waysine stations for odd' .paax-ngem, to the iuVonvcoience of th« majority. Mops at several .stations «:f 'minor, import-. : anco wiM have to ibe 'eliminated from Hii! expres,., trains before- a satisfactory time-table can be presented."