MAIL TRAIN SERVICE.
| SPEEDING UP ASKED FOR. PREMIER NOT HOPEFUL (By Wire.—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last N%llt. Replying to Mr. S. 0. Smith, who asked for decided improvement in the mail train services between New Plymouth and Wellington,. Mr. Massey replied: "Having regard to the number of stopping stations and the heavy grades to be traversed for a considerable portion of the journey, the New Plymouth mail trains are already timed fast. If the number of stopping places were reduced some saving could be effected on the through journey time, but strong objection is invariably raised to any curt tailment of the stopping places. "In regard to accommodation, extra cars arc, added when possible en route up to the maximum haulage capacity of the engine power available on the train. There are occasions when owing to the unexpected wayside traffic, and the fact that the train is already loaded up to itg maximum, the seating accommodation has been somewhat overtaxed, but every effort is made to obviate th« conditoin as far as practicable."
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 4
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172MAIL TRAIN SERVICE. Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 4
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