TRAINS AT CHRISTMAS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 29 November 1929, Page 14

TRAINS AT CHRISTMAS.

EXTRA EXPRESSES PROVIDED.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR HOLIDAYS

LIMITED FOR ROTORUA LINE

To cope with the holiday traffic the llaihvay Department has arranged for the running of a large number of extra expresses during the period from December 20 to January 7., While the arrangements are, in the main, similar to those of last summer, a new departure this year will be the running of an extra express each way between Auckland and Rotoruu daily during the holiday period. The Main Trunk oxpresses from Auckland will bo supplemented by a third leaving at 8.40 p.m. on December 20, 22, 23, 24, and January 2, 3 and 5. On Saturday, December 21, when normally no express would run, one will leave Auckland at 7.40 p.m. From Wellington, for Auckland, an express will leave at 3.34 p.m. on December 20. 21, 23, 24 and 26, and January 2, 3 and 4. A further addition to that service will be mado by an express leaving Wellington at 8.30 p.m. on December 22, 23 and 24. On Christmas Day the daylight limited expresses will not run, but the other expresses will be despatched as usual.

On Christmas Eve, December 24, special trains will leave Auckland us follows:—For Opua, 10.30 p.m.; for Tuuranga, 10 p.m.; for Rotoruu, 10.20 p.m. Inward trains will run from Opua at 8.1.5 p.m. and from Hamilton at 5.43 p.m. Tho supplementary expresses on the Rotorua line will lcavo Auckland at 10.40 a.m. and Rotorua at 955 a.m. on December 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, and January 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7. These will be limited trains, stopping only at Newmarket, Mercer, Frankton Junction, Morrinsville and Putaruru, only about a third of tho places at which the ordinary expresses stop. Not only will tho duplication of the service enable the department to cope with increased traffic expected on tho Rotorna run, but it will obviate the need to attach a second engine to the ordinary express, as was necessary last year, when tho train was expanded into a very heavy ono during tho rush period. Tho extra express will be able to run to a faster time-table, and the usual ono will not bo so liablo to delay owing to heavy loading. For Whangarei an extra express will leave Auckland at 9.15 a.m., and Whangarei for Auckland at 12.50 p.m. on December 21, 23 and 24, and January 4. From Te Ivuiti an extra .express will leave for Auckland at 6.50 p.m. on December 23, 24 and 31. The Frankton Junction to Auckland service will be supplemented by the running of an extra express leaving at 8.27 p.m. on December 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 31, and January 1, 2, 3 and 4.