NEW RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3713, 12 May 1925, Page 47

NEW RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

The extended railway time-table which has been in operation since December ceased on Saturday. The new schedule came into force yesterday. the most important points in connection with the new time-table are the alterations in the running of the expresses. Under the new- service the through express from Invercargill to Christchurch will leave the former place at 7 a.m., arrive at Dunedin at 11.15 a.m., and depart at 11.30 a.m. This train is scheduled to arrive at Christchurch at 7.5 p.rn. The express will run daily, or as long as the traffic warranto its retention. The earlier express from Dunedin to Christchurch will leave here at 8.40, instead of 8 a.m., but on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays only. This train will also continue to run so long as the traffic justifies the double service. The express leaving Christchurch at 8.50 a.m. will run daily. It will arrive at Dunedin at 4.18 instead of 4,45 p.m., depart at 4.40 p.m., and arrive at Invercargill at 8.55 p.m. The express leaving Christchurch at 12.20 p.m. will run on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays only, arriving at Dunedin at 8.45 p.m. The train leaving Dunedin at 8.33 a.m. for Invercargill will run on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays only. Other alterations in various country services are set out plainly on handbills, which are available to the publio, and which may be obtained at the railway stations. CLOSING OF MAILS. The postal authorities advise that consequent upon the new railway time-table, an alteration has been made in the time for closing mails for places north and south of Dunedin. Mails for the North Island, which previously closed at 10.30 a.m.. and 11.15 a.m. at the railway station, have been extended to 10.45 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. respectively. Theso closing hours will also apply to all mails for the West Coast. Mails for all other places in the South Isand north of Dunedin will close daily at 7 a.m., and at the guard’s van of the early north-bound express at 8.40 a.m. Mails for Palmerston. Oamaru. Waimate. and Timaru will clono daily , at 2 p.m., and at 2.56 p.m. at the guard’s van. Mails for Invercargill and other places in tho Southland district will close every Monday. Wednesday, and Friday at 7.30 a.m.. and at 8.33 a.m. at the guard’s van; also for the same places on Tuosday, Thursday, and Saturday at midnight. Tho daily mail for Milton, Balclutha, Clinton, Gore, Invercargill, and other places in the Southland district will dose at 3.30 p.m., and at 4.40 p.m. at the guard’s van.