RAILWAY INNOVATION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 22 May 1925, Page 8

RAILWAY INNOVATION

TWELVE-TRIP BEARER TICKETS

TO BE AVAILABLE ON HUTT LINE, Another innovation has been devised by the Railway Department, as part of the general scheme for popularising train travelling by the institution of a new form of tickets which will be known as twelve-trip bearer tickets. They will be available for use on the Lower Hutt line as from Monday next.

The new tickets will b"e issued for use between Petone or Lower Hutt and Lambton Station, and between Melling "and Lambton, and will have all the conveniences that attach to the concession tickets in use on the city tramways. They are good for twelve single trips in either direction) and are available for use at any time and on any train travelling between the stations named. Furthermore, they are transferable, and the holder is free to have extra clips made, as he chooses, in payment of friends' fares. One or two children between the ages of three and twelve years travelling on the new tickets will count as one adult; three or four "children as two adults; and so on, each additional one or two children counting as one adult.

The prices of the bearer tickets represent a substantial reduction of the ordinary rates. The tickets available between Petone and Lower Hutt and Wellington will cost 8s 6d: first, class, and 6s second class; and those on the Melling- Wellington run 9s 3d first class and 6s 6d'second, class. They are available, of course, between intermediate stations from Wellington to Melling.