WEST COAST TRAIN SERVICE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17812, 11 July 1923, Page 8

WEST COAST TRAIN SERVICE.

PROVISIONAL TIME-TABLE. THROUGH EXPRESS TRAINS ON FOUR DAYS A WEEK. We understand that it is not the intention of the Railway Department to run a daily passenger service between Christchurch and Greymouth, at least not as a beginning. It is stated that the provisional time-table now being devised arranges for passenger express trains both ways on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and a goods train daily. The goods train may bo "mixed on the days the expresses are not running, but such facility is unlikely to be used much by travellers, as speed and comfort would bo of a minute character. [f the four-days-a-weelc expresses are well patronised, the Department may put 011 a daily express service, but, at present, this does not appear probable, until much nearer the Christmas holidays. A WESTPQRT SUGGESTION. (r&BSS ASSOCIATION TBLMBAM.) WESTPORT, July 10. A movement is on foot in Westport to endeavour to induce Parliamentarians en route to the official opening of the Otira tunnel to come to the Coast via Blenheim, Nelson, and Westport, proceeding to Greymouth ancl Hokitika, and on to Otira and completing the tour at Christchurch.