FAMILIES TRAVELLING BY RAIL

Evening Star, Issue 20984, 24 December 1931, Page 9

FAMILIES TRAVELLING BY RAIL

CHEAP TRAVEL PROVIDED. It is by now fairly well known that tho new second class return fares by train cost on an average slightly loss than a penny for each mile of travel. But it is not so generally recognised that oven these low fares become very much lower when a large family sots out for a holiday to a place twenty miles or more away by rail. Tho reduction commences if both parents and three children under sixteen years of ago travel together. In that case one of the children is carried free. Tho arrangement, of course, applies only to second class travel, and provides for tho purchase of a ticket for the family for a total cost equal to three times tho second class excursion return faro for the distance to be travelled, and at least one of the parents is required to travel with the children. Supposing a father and mother and their six children _under sixteen years of age made a trip under these conditions, it would cost them only the price of three second class excursion return fares. In other words, four children would bo carried Hoe,,