UP-TO-DATE RAILWAY STATIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10038, 12 July 1910, Page 4

UP-TO-DATE RAILWAY STATIONS.

The poverty-stricken appearance of both the Wellington and Masterton railway stations is a frequent source of comment by passengers,, especially those who are travelling from other countries. At both the stationb mentioned, as indeed at most of the railway stations in New Zealand, there is neither shelter, convenience, comfort, nor indeed any of the attentions and modern arrangements which the up to-date traveller looks for. In every country in the world Ns«v Zealand railways bear an unenviable name m regard to comfort. Just by way of contrast it may be pointed out that New York City will soon possess a railway station which, in size, convenience, magnificence, and price, will eclipse anything of its kind in either the Old World or the New. Set in thss heart of the Metropolis, it takes the place of four city blocks—equivalent to eight acres—and represents the five years' I toil of an army of workmen, beside i' 24,000,000 of the Pennsylvania Railway Company's capital. Which perhaps accounts for the fact that Americans who travel in New Zealand occasionally feel justified in describing our railway stations as "sheds on the side track."