N.I. MAIN TRUNK
NEW EXPRESS TIMETABLES. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, May 28. In a statement to the Press, the Minister of Railways, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, announced that important timetable alterations will come into operation on and after June 20, following the opening of the new station at Wellington on Saturday, June 10, when all of the passenger trains will use the Tawa Flat Deviation. The change-over lo the Deviation makes it possible to reduce appreciably the running time of all trains using the Wellington —Palmerston North potrion of the Main Trunk. A saving
of forty-two minutes will be. effected in the running of the 3 p.m. Auckland — Wellington Limited. The arrival and departure times of the Main Trunk expresses have been arranged to coincide in both directions. The Limited will take fourteen and a-quarter hours for the run between Auckland and Wellington terminals, and the ordinary expresses will take sixteen hours.. Time-saving alterations are also being made in the case of the Now Ply-' mouth and Napier expresses, as well 1 as the Wellington—Palmerston North I local trains, and alterations to pro-1 .vide faster services have been ar-j tanged for various Wellington subur-' bau lines, also on the Wairarapa route..
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 May 1937, Page 6
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