NEW RAIL-CAR UNITS
“ CHRISTCHURCH-DUNEDIN TIME COULD BE CUT ”
Rail-car trains seating 264 passengers could cut two hours off the existing Christchurch-Dunedin express service, the relieving district mechanical engineer for the Railways Department (Mr G. S. J. Read) said yesterday. Trains of this type could be made up by coupling three of the new 88passenger diesel rail-cars together. Mr Read said that a 264-passenger rail-car train would have the appearance of a six-carriage train. It would be two-thirds of the size of a normal south express. He said that the department did not have 264-passenger rail-car trains in mind yet.
“But if the traffic demanded them and there were sufficient rail-cars available they could be used on the Picton-Invercargill run," he said. “The department has just placed an order for another 15 of the new 88seater rail-cars. This will bring the number ordered to 50.” Mr Read said that four of the new 88-seaters had now begun their trial runs from Christchurch. The fifth, delivered from the Addington workshops yesterday, would begin its trials on Tuesday. The inauguration day for the new Picton-Invercargill rail-car service will be February 13. and the improved services to the West Coast will begin a week later.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27872, 21 January 1956, Page 4
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