EXCURSION TRAINS

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1935, Page 4

EXCURSION TRAINS

WANGANUI TRIP PROVES POPULAR. Three excursion trains that concentrated at Wanganui for the West Coast surf championships in the . week-end , proved very popular, all being loaded to capacity. One ran from Wellington on Saturday and Sunday trains.. ran from New Plymouth and Hawera. . ■ - The New Plymouth train carried 220 ■ passengers leaving New Plymouth, and collected 90 from Inglewood and Waitara, and 70 from stations between Inglewood and Hawera, arriving at Aramoho with < 370. The Hawera train reached Wanganui with nearly 400 passengers, more than expected and a heavy load for a oneengined train. A number of the passengers were transferred to the New Ply* mouth train for the return, and the total on the through service leaving Aramoho was 445, leaving Hawera 390 and Stratford 315. The uncompleted repairs to washouts I between Durham Road and Midhirst . A cessitated speed being regulated to“deaoy slow,” with the result that the trip from New Plymouth to Stratford took two hours. . Doubts were entertained concerning the safety of the repairs to the Tariki.'' J station bridge after the train had passes in the morning. Officials travelled fro' Wanganui and further operations we. carried on throughout the day, no tr° u * .r M) bie being experienced on the homeward J trip from Stratford, which also required nearly two hours.