Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-31
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scale and will handle passenger bus
mess with fewer trains.
Fifty-six Trains
total of fifty-six trains will be
taken from the Reading schedule.
This includes changes east and west
bound between Harrisburg and Read
ing and the elimination of one train
between Middletown and Hummels-
town. Edison j. Weeks, general pas
agent of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway system, to-day issued the
following official announcement of
train annulments:
Main Line
Northbound-Week Downing
town local leaving Philadelphia 9.1S
a. m.: Allentown local leaving Phil
adelphia 2.OS p. M; 'Downingtown To-
cal leaving Philadelphia 4.36 p. M;
Reading local leaving Philadelphia
$40 p. M; Williamsport express leav-
ing Philadelphia 11,30 p. m.
Note: Effective January /, 1918,
train No. Is, Reading Express. now
leaving Philadelphia S.36 p. M, will
be changed to leave at 11.30 p. m.
Sundays: Downingtown local leaving
Philadelphia 9.13 a. M; Pottsville ex-
press leaving Philadelphia 1.25 p. M:
"Downingtown local leaving Philadel-
phia 1856 p. M; Williamsport express
leaving Philadelphia 11.30 p. m.
Southbound-Wee Weekdays: Williams
port express arriving Philadelphia
| $50 a. M; Downingtown local arriv-
ing Philadelphia S.32 a. M: Allen
town local arriving Philadelphia 1854
p. M: Reading local arriving Phila-
delphia 3.34 p. m; Downingtown local
arriving Philadelphia 3.39 p. m.
Sundays: Williamsport express ar
rving Philadelphia S.32 a. M; Down
ingtown local arriving Philadelphia
3.39 p. M; Pottsville express arriving
Philadelphia 9.42 p. m.
sAnnulled between Philadelphia and
Bridgeport.
! SchuylkiII Valley Branch
| Eastbound - Weekdays and Sun
days: Leaving Pottsville 2.16 a. m.
Westbound - Weekdays and Sun
| days: Leaving Tamaqua 3.06 a. m.
| Little SchuylIxIII Branch
Observation-Disclosures, leaving Port
Clinton 1910 a. m. and 3.5S p. m.
MISUNDERSTANDING. leaving Ia
! maqua $40 a. m. and 7.12 p. m.
PerISiOmen Railroad
Northbound - Weekdays, Allentown
local leaving Philadelphia 2.OS p. m.
Southbound - Weekdays. Allentown
local leaving Allentown $50 a. m.
East Penn Branch
Eastbound Weekdays: Leaving
Reading 3.05 p. m. and 557 p. M;
Sundays: Leaving Reading 5.57 D. M
Westbound - Weekdays: Leaving
Allentown 80 a. m. and 11.20 a. m.
Sundays: Leaving Allentown 11.3C
| a. m.
Lebanon Valley Branch
Westbound - Weekdays: Leaving
| Reading ASS a. M, 1910 a. m. and
1920 p. M; Sundays: Leaving Read
ing 4.55 a. m, 1920 p. m. and $40
p m.
Eastbound - Weekdays: Leaving
Harrisburg 1850 p. M, Abs p. m. and
10 p. M; Sundays: Leaving Harris
burg 1850 p. m, 4.35 p. m. and 10
| p. m.
Note: Train No. 40, leaving Reading
ga. m., will carry passengers and
make stops formerly made by train
| No. IL.
MiddIetown and HummeIstOwn Branch
| Northbound - Weekdays: Leaving
Middletown $40 p. m.
Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway
| Southbound - Weekdays: Leaving
Carlisle for Mt. Holly Springs 7.8s
| p. m.
ShnmOI<In Division
| Northbound - Weekdays: Leaving
Tamaqua 2.55 a. m; Sundays: Leav-
ing Tamaqua 255 a. M, 11.20 a. m
and 443 p. m.
Southbound - Weekdays: Leaving
| Williamsport 11.30 p. m.; Sundays:
Leaving Shamokin 6.35 a. m, leaving
| Williamsport p. m. and 1130 D. m