TRAINS AND MAILS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 46, 23 August 1939, Page 13

TRAINS AND MAILS

GETTING BACK TO NORMAL

Train running on the Main Trunk railway, seriously disorganised during the last two days by extensive washouts and slips, is nearly back to normal It is expected that slight delays will be occasioned today, but by tomorrow the regular time-table should be in operation again. The express which left Auckland on ' Monday ••afternoon and which should {have reached Wellington yesterday morning, triumphantly completed its journey minus any passengers at 2.14 a.m. today. These had all beet, transferred at Te Kuiti to Monday night's Limited, which reached Wellington at 112.27 a.m. today. Yesterday's 3 p.m. express from Auckland was only 18 minutes late in I reaching Wellington this morning, and the Limited was an hour and forty ' minutes late. ! Each of the north-bound expresses j which left Wellington yesterday ari rived in Auckland this morning a little over an hour behind scheduled time. Mails from Auckland to Wellington and vice versa hav-' of course suffered the same delay as passengers, that brought by air being the only portion to escape. A special staff was ready in Wellington this morning to sort the mail brought by the Limited, that is, Monday's Limited which arrived at 2.14 a.m., enabling it to be delivered this morning. As yesterday's expresses were not very late, their mail will be delivered this afternoon. I