RAILWAY DELAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19627, 4 May 1927, Page 14

RAILWAY DELAYS.

Sir, —The Railway Department is evidently out to grab every penny it can get, and will even go to the length of delaying a train anywhere up to an hour, to pick up a few extra pounds. Several times the ordinary north-hound passenger trains leaving Helensville have been outrageously delayed because some commercial traveller, arriving at Helensville by motor, and there learning that the northern highway is impassable, drives to the station a few minutes before the scheduled departure of a train, and wants his car conveyed to a northern station on that particular train. By the time the car is trucked, and shunting operations are completed, in regulation railway "go-sjow" fashion, the best part of an hour has elapsed. The train leaves an hour late, and prospective passengers wr.it all along the northern line, until they begin to wonder whether the train is going to come at all. The people of HeWtsVille iu-e largely to blame for this state of affairs. These apathetic villagers would perhaps succeed in improving' railway transportation. if they raised their voices in protest, instead of adopting a "devil-may-care" attitude. Herbert W. Taylor.