RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 22 December 1926, Page 8

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

RUSH SETS IX. BUSY SCENES AT STATION. Some of the hardest worked people in the Railway Department this morning were the coaching formen and porters employed at the Auckland station. Between 7 and 10 o'clock, in addition to suburban traffic, three expresses arrived and one took its departure for Wellington, whilst expresses also left for Whangarei, Rotorua, and the Thames. The first inward express from Wellington, which consisted of seven cars, guard's van, and postal van, was full to overflowing, the van being piled to the roof with baggage. But this was nothing to the amount of luggage which had to be handled when the second express arrived from Wellington. She consisted of 12 cars, a sleeper and a van, and carried close on 500 passengers, 150 of whom were immigrants who had arrived by the Shaw-Savill liner Athenic at Wellington. When the passengers had disembarked .the station platform was littered from end to end with luggage. Practicalljr every carriage, in addition to the passengers that it contained, was packed with baggage. A similar state of affairs presented itself when the Limited Express arrived at 10.13, nearly three-quarters of an hour late. Her seven carriages contained 210 passengers on arrival at Frankton, of whom ISO came on to Auckland. The Daylight Limited whichjeft Auckland for Wellington at 7.53 a.m. took away 111 passengers, of whom 71 had reserved seats. There were 25 people in the first class and 86 in the second. .This left 168 seats available for people who wished to join the train en route.