TRAIN SERVICES

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1917, Page 8

TRAIN SERVICES

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —I notice by advertisement in The Post that the Railway Department are again altering the timetables, and amongst other alterations are putting the 12.20 Saturday train to Paekakariki forward to 12.15.

Now, sir, 12.15 is too, early to suit anyone working farther from the station than the Government Buildings. Even now there is a'continuous gro>vl about the train leaving as early as 12.20, yet the authorities think fit to put it fo>\vard to 12.15. This means that thoss who have a, struggle to catch it at present will simply have to give up all hope, and wait for the next at 1.25, which is put back five minutes. If they want to run the Auckland train earlier, let them start it at 12.15 or 12.20, and our train at 12.30 or thereabouts, which would suit us suburbanites better than the present arrangement, and would work in with the inward train from Auckland.

It is all very well to preach about war time, etc., but it is absurd to start a train too early for most people to catch without extraordinary exertions, when it could very well Jeave a bit later, without working the staff an extra shift or even overtime.—l am, etc., DISGUSTED.

Ngaio, 31st July.