THE TRAIN SERVICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14084, 12 December 1907, Page 7

THE TRAIN SERVICES.

TO TUK EDITOR. S>(l!,—A few ilnys ajiii there was a. loiter 111 your paper (om plain in </ of || M . slowness (if one of the northern trains—viz., from f'hrisichiiroh to Nprilif,'lii.'lil. Tin; writer (Iron- attention to tin' time spent— wastcit would be a. more appropriate, word—at various stations, savin',' it tool; soil|cttiin« like four hours to do 50 miles, a ]j(ll« over 12 miles an hour. Our trains talci three Fiour-5 lo do 32 miles-ten and Iv.nliiird hour. When we go into town for shopping or oilier business.' to -av ntilliiiii; of <;<)iii<; lo sec one's friends or an eitlerltiimwiit of any sort, it actually l»t-es six hours of Hi,, day in (he train. Tim speed travelled U not so much lo lip complained of-it is the dreadful Mopping at larioiH Million-. For instance, lake' llio 3.27 p.m. from town. Whv does that train Mop at all llie little stations between Diiiiediu and Port Chalmers when (hern is a I'lirt iraii, only 17 minutes before? Then why have we to spend so lone at Burke? to allow a suburban train to pass? Al I'liralcaiiui we slop again for some lime, and often al Wailati for a < t narler 0 r an hoiij;. One nij-ljt last week when I was on (ward we spent quito four minulesat. Kvansdale, a lone- timo at NoaoliiF, and at Puke-, tiraki-cruollcst of all-we were shunted and kept an unsueakahle time for the ex. press- to ):;uss. Wliy this la.sl. and worst ol annoyance can't lie altered it is indeed difficult to see. Cannot Ihinps be s<j arranged that the express in passed .at Wai, honaiti, or even let. as leave town a. liitk later and meet it at Seacliff.-I am. et-., A Constant Tbavklleis, Waikouaili. December 9.