RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13316, 17 January 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

The traffic o.i the local rail«a> kept up to the standard ou Saturday evening last, notwithstanding tho heavy downpour of rain. A ver> X number of country visitors braved the elements, and came into town to do the time-honoured festival and turned it into a regular Christmas Ere. Tlu> late 10 p.m. train was a heavy one, and journeyed right ou to Kiwi, a goodly number of pisf.sngers availing themselves ol the opportunity o f getting away back. Christmas Day saw 150 passengers ■i out to join their friends and relations in the country. On Boxing" Day th? passengers exceeded any other Boxing Day, and notwithstanding the uncertainty of tin- weather quite 000 left by the two morning trains for up-country principally for the Wake-field sports, which grows y«ar- by year in popularity. The* returning trains were exceptionally heavy, but all returned safe and sound by the last two trains, and were landed in Nelson dry and comfortable. Of course, on holidays, is scarce, but every effoit was made to reserve carriage accommodation for those- holding carriage tickets. Trains were run to suit all as near as possible. 'Hie bulk of the traffic concentrated at Wakefiekl. A fast train will leave Kiwi this morning to bring in excursionists in time for business, arriving at Nelson at 8.-15 a.m.