RESERVED TRAIN SEATS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19462, 8 November 1928, Page 6

RESERVED TRAIN SEATS.

PRIVILEGE EXTENDED.

The steady growth in the Dumber of passengers carried on our passenger and express trains is doubtless responsible for the now almost universal practice of reserving seats for long distance journeys. The convenience of the booking system has eliminated the old-time breathless bustle to the station long before the train was due to depart, followed by the'inevitable exasperating quest for unoccupied seats. Until recently the reservation of seats on the principal passenger trains was restricted to journeys of not less than 100 / m -

now been removed and passengers by these trains can leserv? their seat; between any stopping stations irrespective of distance;

In the case of the Auckland-Wel-lington "Limited" express trains a limited number of seats are usually available between Wellington and Palmerston North, and Auckland and *rankton. These may now be booked by. passengers travelling between those points.

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