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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 11 (February 1, 1935)

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Now freight handling facilities at Harwich, L. and N.E. Railway.

Now freight handling facilities at Harwich, L. and N.E. Railway.

The Home railways rank among the world's largest dock-owners. Ports like Southampton, Harwich, Hull and Cardiff, are all railway-owned and operated, and at most of the railway-owned shipping centres increasing business has recently been recorded.

Because of the enormous development of Continental business at the Port of Harwich, the London and North Eastern Railway have just opened a new quay-side passenger station at this point, together with extensive new freight-handling facilities. The new passenger station is 920 feet long, and is equipped with booking offices, money exchange, parcels and inquiry offices, and a spacious refreshment room. For freight handling there is a huge new transit shed, 900 feet long and 63 feet wide, as well as a new quay 6,000 square yards in extent carrying three lines of railway track.

Regular sailings between Harwich and the Continent date back to 1863. At the present time, the L. and N.E. Railway operate to and from Harwich nightly steamship services with Hook of Holland and Antwerp. The Zeeland S.S. Company operates a daily service to and from Flushing, Holland; and there is also a nightly service with Esjberg, Denmark, conducted by the United S.S. Company.

In connection with each passenger sailing, a restaurant and Pullman car train runs between London (Liverpool Street) and Harwich. Awaiting the ships' arrivals at the continental ports are express international trains to all parts of Holland, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, etc. In addition, express freight trainferries operate daily between Harwich and the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, enabling loaded wagons to run direct from English stations to interior continental points without transhipment en route.