RAILWAYS AND TIME-TABLES.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —Being a passenger on the advertised New Year’s Day 10 a.m. train to Ashhurst, can the department tell me why we did not leave till 10.18; why it took 8 minutes for two guards and two porters and as many passengers to get on at Terrace End? With the number of picnickers who travelled was it absolutely necessary to have the cars on behind a string of wagons? Did not nearly 1000 souls warrant a passenger train? It is high time the railways were handed over to non-poli-tical control. Exactly the same thing happened on Woodville races. We were 22 minutes late, and the train was 12 minutes shunting at Ashhurst. Is it any wonder the public do not patronise the railways. A smartening up in the service is required. But there will be no next time for me, the buses are more punctual and attentive.—Yours etC ’’ NEW YEAR PICNICKER.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 27, 2 January 1931, Page 2
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