MAIN TRUNK TRAINS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 245, 16 October 1925, Page 9

MAIN TRUNK TRAINS.

THE DAYLIGHT LIMITED.

OTHER EXPRESSES SPEED UP

GOODS TRAFFIC ACCELERATED.

(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON", Thursday.

Important railway developments were announced by the Prime Minister during his Town Hall speech. He assured the large auuience that he knew no case where, in improving tfie train services, the margin of safety had been reduced. Speed had been increased simply because stops had been cut out, and others shortened. The Department was taking no unreasonable risk.

A daylight Limited express between Wellington and Auckland would commence running on November 15, leaving Wellington at 7.55 a.m., and arriving in Auckland at 10.49 p.m. It would leave Auckland at 7.53 a.m., and arrive in Wellington at 11.10 p.m. There would be an additional stop at Te Kuiti.

The night Limited would run exactly as before, "and both will be limited to eight coaches, and no more."

The Premier added that the ordinary express would be speeded up slightly. The train which now leaves Wellington at 12.45 p.m. and arrives at Auckland at 6.38 a.m.. will be dispatched at 2 p.m. and arrive at 6.41 a.m. The ordinary express from Auckland will leave at 7.45 p.m., as at present, and arrive at Wellington at 12.35 p.m., instead of 1.50 p.m. The northward journey will thus be reduced by 1 hour 12 minutes, and the southward by 1 hour 15 minutes. The ordinary expresses will stop at Otorohanga. These alterations will enable passengers leaving and arriving at Wellington to obtain more convenient lunch, and will also give more satisfactory meal times at Marton Junction. Express Goods Innovation. In the South Island the Department had completed its acceleration of train services, and the Christchurch-Invercar-gill expresses would be run daily. A new feature of the speaker's policy was being put into operation, that of running night goods services between Auckland and -Wellington, and Christchurch and Invercargill. This meant that goods would be carried more quickly. He 'believed the saving in the South Island would be 27 hours. These innovations, concluded the Minister of Railways, were part of the policy of making the railways indispensable to every class in the community.