SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 9

SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICE.

-\ coi respondent signing himself "Diisatisfied writes complaining about tha late arrival of the workmen's early train from the Lower Hutt, and asking the reason thereof. He himself puts it down to mismanagement. He says that the first workmen s train was one day this week detained five minutes at Kaiwarra owing to a goods train being half-o-block ahead. The 7.31 a.m.. train left Wellington consequently at 7.42 when the second workmen's train was at Kai. warra, causing ten miuutes' delay. The Wairarapa train left at 7.55. Thus the goods train delayed at least four passengei trains, and probably more. Fiirth-r. "Dissatisfied" alleges that the second workmen's train, which used to reach Te Aro at 7.48 a.m., now usually comet in at 8 o'clock or afterwards. More complaints, he says, will certainly be forthcoming if a more workable timetable is not put in force. The authorities reply that on the morning in question the workmen's trains were certainly delayed, but the reason was that the goods train was detained at Xgahaurangn unavoidably in getting a trainload of frozen meat for export; that until the lino is duplicated throughout similar delays may occur trom time to time; that the second workmen's tiain is due at Te Aro at 7.53 a.m., not 7.48, and does not regularly arrive at 8 o'clock or afterwards; and that, finally, the Lower Hutt and Petona have the oest suburban train service in the Dominion.