New Britain herald., 1924-08-06
THE MAIN LINE AND SERVICE

THE MAIN LINE AND SERVICE
 New Britain already has passenger station on the main line Of the New Haven railroad; true, it is not em- bellished with the eity's name, but that of New Britain Junction or Berlin, But for all practical purposes the Berlin station serves as main line station for New Britain If the train service at Berlin were what 1t ought to be there probably would be little complaint against this readily acces- sible station. II would seem that the most effective way to obtain an iln- proyement in passenger train service from and 10 New Britain Is to con- centrate upon gaining an improvement in service at Berlin.
 The Berlin station at present IS more readily accessible than a station on the main line in the eastern part of New Britain would be, such as has been suggested. There Is "dinky' train service connection with Berlin from the downtown New Britain sta- tion. which yields rapid service to con meet with trains which stop at Berlin and there is trolley service te Berlin for those who prefer that means or travel.
 The station at Berlin is more con- yenient to most portions of New Brit ain than railroad stations are to the homes of people in most cities. Be- ..,sa nerson lives in Hartford or vicinity for instance, does not sigmiS he is any nearer to the railroad statioh .h,n the distance from New Britain to Berlin: he may or may not, and proo- sblv most residents are not. In the larger cities it is even worse ihe millions living in upper Manhattan have further to travel to reach 'he r.;1roaa stations than we have in New Britain. Getting aboard a tram aC Berlin-those that stop there--is ho .n,. tr,ck The point is all main line trains should stop there with cor responding dinky connections, ana the .,.,, .hou,d concentrate it's efforts to force the railroad company to give this reasonable and proper service.
 With Berlin the outlet TOT NC" ptttain's travel to the south mantese'S i, ;s a more important station Una" Meriden, 8 city of less population put here is what the time table discioses' train stops at Meriden at 3;lz a. III This train doesn't stop at berih anO there would be no way to get 10 'h' station if it did, except by automopi' or taxicab. Another, an accoihnioua' tion. stops at Berlin at 4:4i d. m'' pu the dinky line to the station ish running at that time and It "ouiu o' necessary to take taxi or auto. V course it might be claimed that ieN nasseneers would leave the cily 'o New York on points south so carry II the morning. v,
 The first train to the south WILL dinky connections from New bri'a'' leaves at s:1O a. m. the Washingtohla' Il a first class train, which goes to tn pennsylvania station, does not stop d Berlin and leaves Meriden at o'oc Why should it stop at Meriden ana no s, Berlin for New Britain business Probably because it is hrst c'a' train.
 A nerson from New Britain or Der lin wishing to go 10 Washington L C.. Baltimore or Philadelphia coui m, use this train. He couldn't eve eo .o Hartford 10 get it. as the hr' train from New Britain to Har''or .rrive. there two minutes after th Washingtontan leaves. And he coulu'' set it by taking the S;1o to Meriue o, New Haven. because it arrives each point too late. And yet the Ne Haven sdyertises this train quite e' tenslyely. Apparently nobody 'ro' New Britain and environs IS eNpecte to desire through service to e''h' Philadelphia. Baltimore or Nash'h' ton: or fl they do, they can chang .t the Grand Central The PennsS ,ants railroad out to know in "h' wonderful manner the Ne" Have train schedules are arranged!
 There are four trains from Berii befween 7:s5 a. m. dnd 11:6i a. IT with an additional one at l2:ol P on Saturdays.
 There are four through trains ITO Berlin going south from 1855 3 m "i iii 2.os p. m. with an additional tra at 12:o1 p. m on Saturday But
 a44 an express fails to stop at 'e lin and stops al Meriden. There q five trains up q GAS ?. m. ana a