WELLINGTON SUBURBAN TRAINS
NO FIRST CLASS CHANGE FROM Ist FEBRUARY (United Press Associatioul CHRISTCHURCH, 21st January. From Ist February, trains serving the Wellington suburban area will have only second-class carriages. “I have good reason to believe that this decision will not cause much surprise among people in the localities concerned,” states the Minister of Railways, Mr Sullivan. “It is a case of evolution Of course, the buses which the department have been running for some time have only one class of seating .The same remark applies to the Wairarapa rail-cars and to the new electric ,inulti-ple-unit trains in the Wellington-Johnsou-ville service.
The proportion of first-class passengers on the other suburban trains Ims been gradually declining, and it may soon reach vanishing point, with the improvement of second-class accommodation which is one of the features in the programme of progress. The Wellington experiment will, of course, mean an economy in operation and interest will attach to the reaction of the travelling public to the change.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 23 January 1939, Page 9
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