RAILWAY AND AIR SERVICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 45, 22 August 1938, Page 12

RAILWAY AND AIR SERVICES

The arrival and departure times of the principal trains at Wellington Station are as follows :—•

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DEPARTURES. To Auckland.— 3 p.m. and 7.15- p.m. (no night train on Saturdays or afternoon train ou Sundays). To Napier.— 9.40 a.m. To New Plymouth.— 10.15 a.m. To Wootiville.— 7.50 a.m., 3.30 p.m. (railCaTo Paimerston North.— 8.30 a.m., 9.40 a.m., 10.15 a.m., 3.0 p.m., 5.47 p.m., 7.15 p.m. (Limited Express, not Saturday). To Masterton.—7.50 a.m., 3.30 p.m. (railcar), 6.4 p.m. (rail-car). ARRIVALS. From Auckland.— 7 a.m. (not Mondays), 9.30 a.m. (not Sundays). From Napier.—4 p.m. From New Plymouth.— 5.55 p.m. From Woodville.— 12.14 p.m. (rail-car), 5.44 PIFrom Palmerston North.—10.49 a.m., 7.8 p.m. From Masterton.— 10.10 a.m. (rail-car), 12.14 p.m. (rail-car), 5.44 p.m. AIR SERVICES. Arrival and departure times of airliners nt the Rongotai Airport are as follows: — DEPARTURES. To Auckland. —Noon. (Union Airways service.) To Nelson.— 7.45 a.m., 11.35 a.m., 12.15 p.m., 4 p.m., Monday to Saturday. (Cook Strait Airways service.) To Blenheim. —8.30 a.m., 10.45 a.m., 11.35 a.m., 2.15 p.m., Monday to Saturday. (Cook Strait Airways service.) AHRIVALS. From Auckland.— 11 a.m. (Union Airways service.) From Nelson.— 8.15 a.m., 11.20 a.m., 2 p.m., 4.45 p.m., Monday to Saturday. (Cook Strait Airways service.) From Blenheim.— 9.35 a.m., 11.20 a.m., 12.5 p.m., 3.30 p.m., Monday to Saturday. (Cook Strait Airways service.) To Nelson. —12.15 p.m. SUNDAYS. To Auckland. —Noon. From Auckland. — 11 a.m. f*—