STRATFORD RAILWAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21546, 18 July 1933, Page 11

STRATFORD RAILWAY

PASSENGER SERVICES TIME-TABLE ARRANGED AUCKLAND AND NEW PLYMOUTH [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday The time-tablo for the passenger services shortly to be inaugurated on the Stratford-Main Trunk line has been released by the Railway Department. The actual date, of introduction of the services is indefinite, but it is expected that the Railways Board will make an announcement shortly.

On Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights an express will leave New Plymouth at 7.10 to reach Taumarunui at 12.50 a.m., in time to connect with the north-bound express at 1.22 a.m. and arriving at Auckland at 7:6 a.m. A feature of the new time-table is that travel by this express will mean the saving of about 10$ hours between New Plymouth and Auckland. Even when the night express does not run, it will be possible to save about five hours on the journey by .catching the 1.45 p.m. train from New Plymouth and connecting at Taumarunui with the express arriving at Auckland at 7.6 a.m. Similar advantages arc provided on the southward journey. The express that leaves Auckland for Wellington at 7 p.m. will on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays take cars and a sleeper to be put off at Taumarunui at 12 22 a.m. and attached to an express scheduled to leave Taumarunui for Taranaki at 12.45 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This train will arrive at New Plymouth at 6.1 a.m. Passengers for South Taranaki will be able to leave Stratford at 5.20 a.m. for Hawera and intermediate stations. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridavs passengers leaving Auckland by the 7 p.in. Wellington express may get through to Taranaki by a train leaving Taumarunui at 3 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdavs arftl Saturdays and arriving at Stratford at 10.50 a.m. and connecting with a train from Wanganui leaving at 11.56 a.m. and arriving at New Plymouth at 1 p.m.