HOLIDAY TRAFFIC.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21215, 22 December 1930, Page 7

HOLIDAY TRAFFIC.

HEAVY TRAIN LOADING.

Following the school vacations, ■ traffic north and south by rail frorti Dunedin was normal on Friday, and it was not until Saturday that the real holiday rush set in, and throughout the day the Dunedin Railway Station was thronged with a busy crowd of arriving and. departing holiday-makers. The exodus commenced in the early morning, when the 7.52 express for Central Otago took a load of ISO passengers. The 8.33 train for Invercargill was the next to leave, carrying 250 passengers, and at 8.40 the first express for Christchurch steamed out with a contingent of 270. The through express from Invercarfill to Lyttelton, which generally leaves )unedin at 11.35, was about 15 minutes late in arriving, on account of exceptionally heavy loading over the Dunedin'-In-vercargil! section, and although a large number of passengers left it at Dunedin, it departed again at 11.48 with 400 passengers on board. The relief train which left for Christchurch at 12.5 p.m. was well patronised and took 200 passengers. Inward loadings during the day were also heavy, and although the through express from Christchurch set down 380 passengers at Dunedin, it left again with a complement of 400. A further 250 passengers arrived from the north by the special through train which reached Dunedin at 5.5 p.m. The majority of these left it at Dunedin, and the train departed for* Invercargill 45 minutes later with 250 passengers on board. The express, which arrived from Invercargill at 6.23 pm., and the 8.58 p.m. train from Christchurch, also carried full loads, and between them brought from 500 and 600 passengers to Dunedin.