RAILWAY MISMANAGEMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1024, 16 January 1879, Page 2

RAILWAY MISMANAGEMENT.

The 4 15 train, from Aucklanl, was again late 01 Tuesday and last night m arriving m the Waikato, reaching Hamilton nearei to midnight than to tho hoar mentioned m the authorised time table, 10.26. The cause was the sarae as heretofore, the detention of the train at Ohiniwai, waiting for the up goods train to pass. A very serious inconvenience to travellers by railway, and to many others, ia thus occasioned by the p arsis tenoj ia a blunder by the Railway Management. The advisability of making some station nearer Ohaupo tho point at which these trains should pass each other, has been pointed out again and again, bat official stiff-necked ness is hard to move. It is now quite a common occurrence for the passenger train to bs delayed half-au-hour or more at Ohinewhai waiting for the goods train which leave 3 Ohaupo for Auckland at 6 p.m., and is supposed to arrive at Ohinewai at 8.40 p.m., or seven minutes before the down passenger train arrives there. It is clear that the 0 p.m. goods train cannot keep its time, at any rate it does not, and the way to prevent loss of time and inconvenience to the passenger train is either to despatch the goods train half-an-hour earlier from Uhaupo or, as we have before pointed out, to make Hontley, instead of the station at which they should pass one another. The 4.15 train is due to leave Huntley just twenty-four minutes later than Ohinewai, and this, with the time taken by the goods train between Huntloy and Ohiuewai, would make the difference which is now spent, ia uselessly waiting— making ihe trip from Auckland to Waikato more than half-au-hour longer than it need be, and chat too ac so inconvenient a period of the twenty-four hours.