HOLIDAY TRAINS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 264, 8 November 1945, Page 5

HOLIDAY TRAINS

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE MINISTER extra services. IP ; A - > Wellington, Nov. 7. - 1 anno , u . nc cnient concerning train t t Vl ti eS A V ?! cn VVIJI be available durttne i lslmas holidays war made to-day by the Minister of Railways Mr. Semple. He said that such an announcement was desirable in view

Mr. Semple said that owing to certain unusual features of the holiday period this year, principally centring round the fad that most VdtSS will close down on Friday, December h e ln f cl ?, en “ of travel’ was not ’° lollo ' v the usual trend of a heavy concentration on Christmas h«n’. b V t woulcl m °re l.keiy be fairlv heavy for several consecutive davs ahead ol Christmas. For this reason forTi?r 0 e t n I |v OPOSed ini,iail -V t 0 Provide oi a greatly augmented service bur and a f S,TV ICI be CJoSeiv " a 'ehed' adalt onal ‘rams to those mentioned below will be added if necesOn ?h C M permitted. On the Main Trunk, six trains each way between Auckland and Welling--2i n fou e r P fn n X e<l t f °a Frida V- December -.1. four for Saturday, three for Sun--04 The .H r Monda y- December ~4. ihe Limited expresses will resume their normal running on Monday.- December 17, and will run to and including Monday, January 7 f u?V 1 * lly m lee ? ing . accomm °dation on the Main Trunk will be two cars on days L lmi t e d 011 Mondays and Fri-

NT/SS r T S i SeS j On the ot,ier principal > North Island routes, Auckland-Opua Auckland - Rotorua, Auckland-Tanea-iVr a ’ii W< '4. ingfon ’ New Plymouth, and Wellington-Napier-Gisborne, will run daily from December 17 to January 12. with additional relief trains oh selected days for peak traffic. SOUTH ISLAND SERVICES. In the South Island, the 8.35 a.m. Christchurch-Invercargill express and the < a.m. Invercargill-Lyttelton express will run daily from December 'o Jnnuary 12, supplemented by the J.IU a.m. Christchurch-Dunedin and the 8.45 a.m. Dunedin-Christ-church express. The night express from Christchurch to Dunedin will run on December 20 21, 23 24 a d on January*2, 4,6, IJ, and the DunedinChnstchurch night express will run on December 20, 21 ami 24 and on i January 2,3, 5. 10 and 12 in addition to Ihe usual Jnvercargill-Christchurcn ! Sunday express. The expresses be- ; tween Citr stchurch and Greymouth. the 8..">5 a.m. Dm edin-Invercargiii ; and 1.25 Invercargill-Dunedin e.x- -: messes each way between Dunedir. and Cromwell, will run daily from • December 7 to January 12. Addi- ; lional night trains will also be pro- : vided between Christchurch an ’ Greymouth on peak days. ; There will be a through rail serv’ce on the Christchurch-Ficton line from • December 17 to January 7, provided ‘construction work on the stih uropened section between Oaro and ; Kaikoura is completed, olbr: <.. : se passengers will be conveyed i - .at ween those two poi.-ts by road ser.v'cr?, as at ■ present. The Min’ster said that to enable ’ passengers to complete their s.rrange- ; rnents as <’arly as nossible, applications for reserved seats on pxprosland relief trains would from M.o-day, i November 12. be accepted up to one ‘calendar month ahead of travel .date, ■ wtih a rout nuation of the present ar- . rangeme t o f two day.-’ grace for pas- ! seneei'.s nn-o’yinr at. other than sect al!ot(i!-»p actions. Th s extension will i apply to ail travoTun to and includirg j Januarv 12, after which the resorvinp | period will revert, to the present one week.