TRAIN FERRIES
WELLINGTON TO PICTON A DEVELOPMENT OF THE FUTURE The running of train ferries across Cook Strait between Wellington and Picton, thereby enabling railway travellers to complete the journey from one island to the other without changing, was foreshadoowed as a developoonient of the future by Sir Hugh Poynter, a recent arrival from England, whoo is interested in matters of transportation, in the course oof conversation with a “Dominion” representative on Saturday. Sir Hugh Poynter said train ferries were conducted between Denmark and Norway, in San Francisco, aud also across the English Channel. Trains were run on to the ferries, and carried across the water to land again without disturbing the passengers, who wore able to continue their railway journey on the other side. With regard to Wellington and Picton,, the ferry was a development not for the immediate future, but it would no doubt come about in time, and after he railway to Christchurch had been completed.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 3
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159TRAIN FERRIES Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 3
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