FEATHERSTON TROOP TRAINS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 112, 12 May 1916, Page 2

FEATHERSTON TROOP TRAINS

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Men in training at the above camp are allowed, in limited numbers, leave on Saturdays to visit Wellington. The train is timed to leave camp at 1.10 p.m., and reach Wellington at 5-15 p.m., taking four hours to do a journey of 41miles—a truly reckless speed. On last Saturday the traffic branch evidently thought that the above rate'was too fast altogether, and the train reached this city at 25 minutes to 7. The following' isa list of stoppages ma-dc en route (probably to enable soldiers to admire scenery) : Five minutes late * leaving 'camp, ten minutes' stoppage Fcatherston station; sixty minutes' stoppage Cross Creek, ten minutes' stoppage Upper Hutt, ten minutes' stoppage Haywards, ten minutes stoppage Lower Hutt; total; 1 hour 45 minutes. When it is. remembered . that men arriving here, by that train must return by the' 10 train that night, surely the Railway Department might shake themselves. * What would happen if this was done, for a race train? —I am, etc., A SOLDIER'S MOTHER. ■ Bth May, 1916. . . .