Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27
P. R. R. TIME TABLES
CHANGES TOMORROW
Express Train Service to Be In
creased-Several Additional
Suburban Locals

m general change in the Pennsylvania
.n,aliroad .,aad time table with Important addi-
pSiI ,biis 70 the train service in and out Of
Philadelphia will be nut intb effect to,,,or.
row. The new trains include several ex-
press press runs, the restoration of one express
uiscontlnued In 1914 and several additional
suburban locals
"a new Philadelphia-to-P Pittsburgh express
nnoWn as The Pttsburgher." will leave
this city daily at s:s0 %, M. arrlvins AZ
lri.I lTritl.sourgh at 15 minutes after midnight
me ihe present Day Express" eastbound. now
leaVlng Pittsburgh at 2:0t a. M. will be
replaced by faster train, leaving at 1
D. M daily, arriving at Philadelphia az Q 10
p, m. and New York at ii:so n m The
Lormer train will be continued from Pitts
oursn 70! Harrisburg, where 1t will be over
.,,ien taken by and consolidated with the new
t,i,ay Day express" The daily train leaving
phiiosu,s phisnuIsn at f;lO a. m. and arriving at
Fmiadelphta at 5:15 p. m which was dis
continued In 1914, will be restored
Ihe two new expresses to New York will
IeaVe at $3.50 O'Clock In the morning and
- CLOCK IN the evening, respectively maxi
lnB tne run In two hours. The new Sunday
express VIII leave Philadelphia at p. M,
arriving at New York at d. m
for the benefit of commuters on the Main
Line, between Broad Street Station and
Paoli, a special Saturday afternoon express
service VIII be established, beginning June
lO, practically doubling the frequency of
the outbound electric trains between 1915
ana 2:l5 p. m. The Saturday specials will
replace, on that afternoon only four ex-
presses leaving OF later hours on other
weekday afternoons. The entire schedule
OF the suburban electric trains will also be
revised and the running time reduced.
The special Saturday afternoon electric
express trains from Broad Street Station to
Paoli VIII leave at 40. 1:05, 1 80 and Q :O5
o'clock, respectively. These will replace, on
Saturdays, the weekday expresses leaving
at 4:l3 4:43, $50 and $40 o'clock, p. m.
The aforementioned special will run the year
round and the others from June 10 to Sep
tember 30, inclusive. A new inbound night
train, giving extra late service, will leave
Paoli at 1918 a. m, arriving at Broad
Street Station at :O5 a. M. making all
stops.
In revising the schedule of the Main Line
electric trains. the present departing time,
for the half-hourly outbound service of is
and 40 minutes after the hour will be re-
tained. Inbound, the arriving time of the
half-hourly trains will be changed to and
30 minutes after the hour, between 10:03
a. m. and 1903 p m. This will be done to
permit greater efficiency in handling the
traffic, and will give close connections at
West Philadelphia with the hourly trains
to New York. The new running time will
be 49 minutes westbound and AZ minutes
eastbound, between Broad Street Station
and Paoli, or seven minutes each way less
than the former steam schedules
Additional train service will also be pro-
vided between Wilmington and Philadel-
phia and for the cities of Baltimore, Harris
burg and Lancaster. Between Pittsburgh
and Buffalo the running time of all trains
will be reduced as the result of placing In
service three new tunnels.