WEEK-END TRAVEL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1928, Page 2

WEEK-END TRAVEL

In their effort to meet the increasing competition of inotor-coaches for passenger traffic, the British railways have introduced a wide extension of the facilities for cheap week-end travel. Previously, week-end tickets were issued only from noon on Friday, and were available only uutil tho following Monday The period has been extended to fi#o days, and tho minimum fares reduced. Tho outward journey may be commenced by any train at or after 4 a.m. on Iriday, Saturday or Sunday, and the return made on Saturday or any day up to Tuesday. The fare for the double journey is single far-e and one-third with a minimum of 4s first-class and 2s 6(1 third class. With these tickets from one to four nights may be spent away, and the journeys may be made by any ordinary train. The reduced minima- will also bring, within the arrangement a large number of places to which weekend tickets were previously not available. The counter-attack upon the road transport services has been in. progress for the last eighteen months or two years, though its more notable developments are recent. Cheap day trips—at single fare for tho whole double journey —have been instituted over a great part of the country.