RECORD BOOKINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1938, Page 7

RECORD BOOKINGS.

HEAVY RAIL TRAFFIC.

SEVERAL EXCURSIONS

Passenger traffic through the Auckland Railway Station has been exceptionally heavy during the past week, and it is anticipated that this week-end will prove to be the busiest one experienced for a long time. Bookings for the regular trains are heavy, and with three well-booked extra trains running to Wellington, as well as two popular excursions to holiday resorts, railway officials will be kept working at top pressure until Monday.

Extra expresses through to Wellington will be running at 7.45 p.m. to-night and on Sunday night, and at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow afternoon, all of these trains being very well booked. Besides the two trains for Otranto tourists to-mor-row morning, there will be a special excursion, run in connection with the Cambridge Trotting Club's meeting, at a.m. to-morrow, and there will be an excursion train to Waitomo Caves, leaving Auckland on Sunday morning at 8.49 o'clock, returning shortly before 10 o'clock the same night.

Inwards traffic will also be very heavy, the three o'clock train from Wellington this afternoon being divided into two parts, with the first portion arriving in Auckland at the usual time, 7 a.m., and the second portion at 7.3<i a.m. to-morrow. The ordinary expresses will all be well tilled.