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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 5 (August 1, 1939)

Summer Excursion Arrangements

Summer Excursion Arrangements.

Statistics show that quite fifty per cent, of passenger journeys in Britain
“Flying Scotsman” at Main Departure Platform, King's Cross.

“Flying Scotsman” at Main Departure Platform, King's Cross.

are made under cheap day, half-day and evening excursion arrangements. Last summer 164,000,000 train journeys were made by passengers holding tickets at fares costing less than one penny per mile, and in the four months June-September inclusive this year the group lines are planning to run no less than 17,500 half-day and evening excursions, carrying something like 8,000,000 passengers. To convey sightseers to that ever-popular spectacle, the Searchlight Military Tattoo at Aldershot, in June, there were operated some hundreds of long-distance trains. Another outstand-ing movement is in connection with the Navy Week Displays at Chatham, Portsmouth and Devonport, between 30th July and 6th August. The co-ordination of rail and road service is enabling new types of excursions to be run, and by arrangements with steamer proprietors, combined rail, road and steamer trips—both for independent travellers and conducted parties—are being extended. The arrangements for the interavailability of tickets between rail and road services now cover 2,300 places on the main-line railway systems, and over a million passengers annually are transferred from rail to road and vice versa.
page 26

page 27
G.W.R. Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, near Plymouth.

G.W.R. Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, near Plymouth.