New-York tribune., 1919-12-09
Eastern Roads
Cut 54OTrains
To Save Coal
Central and West Shore
to Take Off 131, New
Haven l3O, Pennsylvania
II and Long Island l3

AS means Of conserving coal more
than $40 trains will be eliminated from
the schedules of railroads in the East
ern region beginning at 1901 a. m. to-
morrow, it was announced yester rday
The revisions, which were made public
yesterday, show that commuters will
be affected slightly, but it was noted
that large proportion Of trains to
be eliminated are run during non-rush
hours.
The announcement of yesterday was
in line with last Fridays notice that
train schedules here would be clipped
sharply. The cuts are even more
sweeping than was expected. Addi-
tional reductions will be made public
to-day, as some of the railroads have
not completed their curtailed schedules.
The New York Central and West
Shore lines drop 131 trains; the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Line,
1870 trains; the Pennsylvania, 1852; the
Jersey Central. SO, the Lackawanna,
29, and the Long Island, 13. Erie
schedules are to be announced to-day
Famous Trains To Suspend
Several famous limited trains will
be missing beginning tomorrow and
Until the coal stringency is relieved.
The New York Central's Twentieth
Century Limited and the Pennsylvania's
Broadway Limited, between Chicago
and New York in twenty hours, and the
knickerbocker Express, one of the New
Haven's best trains between Boston
and New York, will be temporarily dis
continued. The New York Central will
cut off nine westbound and eight east
bound trains on its main line.
In the new schedules of all lines an
effort will be made to have remaining
trains make the stops of those taken
off. The curtailment will be effected
with as little Inconvenience to passen-
gers as possible, it was said yesterday
at the office of A. T. Hardin, regional
director Of railroads here.
Service on the Yonkers branch of the
West Shore Railroad will be discontin-
ued on Sundays. The Harlem Division
of the Central will give up seven north
bound and an equal number of south
bound trains. of the kind used almost
exclusively by commuters. Nine trains
each way are to be removed from the
Harlem Division on Sundays.
New York City's service on the New
Haven hardly will be curtailed by the
new schedules. Only four trains touch
ing New York will be eliminated out
L
run between New York and Boston
They include Train As, leaving Boston
| at 7:46 a. In. for New York; Train IS
leaving Boston at p. m. for New York
Train 46, leaving New York at 1851
a.. m. for Boston. and Train 16, leaving
New York at l p. m. for Boston. The
second and fourth trains are the Knick-
erbocker Limited. More than hun
dred of the discontinued trains either
run into or depart from Boston.
% Commuters Trains Affected
Twenty two commuters links be
tween the city and their homes will be
removed by the schedule revision OF
the Lackawanna Railroad. Two morn
ing trains from Montclair, 1925 anc
10:39, will be removed. Two morning
trains from New York to Montclair
1925 and $50, are eliminated Five
! South Orange trains will be removed
Morristown will lose four
Passenger Traffic Manager George A
Cullen of the Lackawanna announced
that seven trains operating between
Pennsylvania and upstate points have
| been scheduled for withdrawal
The Central Railroad of New Jersey
it was announced, will cut off forty
five trains between New York ane
nearby Jersey points. Eight of these
are New YorkNewark trains. Train
658, starting from Philadelphia fol
New York at 6:30 q. m, is the onl,
important train to be dropped Sever
Elizabethport trains will be discon
tinued. Passenger Traffic Manage,
Hope, who announced the reductions
said that about eighty trains, or II
per cent OF the service of the Phila
delphia and Reading line, would b.
eliminated. The new schedule has no
yet been compiled, he said.
The reduction of the service of tn,
Long Island Railroad announced b.
that line last night will take ava,
about 10 per cent Of the trains. Non
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