TRAVEL DE LUXE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 7

TRAVEL DE LUXE

NEW ROTORUA TRAINS MEETING CAR COMPETITION (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. The. new carriages to be used on the Auckland-Rotorua railway service will come into use soon after Easter. Sixteen carriages, each of a typo hitherto not, seen on the New Zealand railways, have been, constructed at the Otahuhu workships, and successful trial runs have been made. Everything is now ready for the initiation of the new luxury service, but as reservations of seats on the ordinary Rotorua express have l>een made weeks in advance by intending passengers, the Railway Department has decided to postpone the introduction of the new service until after the Easter rush. The chief object in building the new carrhigtes is to offer the travelling public, particularly visitors to Rotorua, comfortable accommodation, designed to eompete with the growing motor traffic. The seats in first-class cars are capable of adaption to three positions, namely, day, semi-lounge, and total recline. Vestibules replace the open platform, and the windows are frameless, opening like those of a motor car. Observation cars fitted with lounge chairs will lie attached to each train.