Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-24
Three New Trains Added Since
Fall Schedule Year Ago Will
Be Continued-Portland And
Bangor Limited, and East
bound Pine Tree Limited
The Complete Schedule

Augusta is particularly benefited
by the full fall schedule change of
Maine Central Raiload passenger
| trains which takes effect Sunday
| September &c. This change is char
| acterized by General Passenger
Agent NJ. L. Harris as a distinct i'm
privement over the 1925 winter SER
vice, with quickened schedules. add
! ed trains and improved equipment,
| though it naturally falls somewhat
short of the service in effect dur
ing the past summer.
The feature of improved service on
the main line will be the addition Of
new local train leaving Portland
every week day morning at 1911
and arriving at Augusta at 1919.
Three trains which have been added
since the adoption of the fall sched-
/ ule a year ago will be continued
the Portland Limited, the Bangor
Limited and the eastbound Pine Tree
Limited. The westbound Pine Tree
Limited will continue to run from
Waterville to Portland connecting
with the Pine Tree to Boston.
Trains leaving Portland at 2:15 A.
NJ, daily except Monday, 6:45 A. NJ.
daily, 1850 daily except Sunday, this
train being the Bangor Limited, show
little change. They will arrive in
Augusta respectively at 4:40, 9:01
and 9:2S. the 4:40 A. M. doing local
work and arriving Bangor $50 A.
NJ, the 9:01 morning local arriving
Bangor 1920 A. NJ. and the 1928 A.
NJ. running express arriving Bangor
1880 A. NJ. No change will take
place in the other morning train, the
So. Gardiner local, which will con-
tinue to leave South Gardiner every
week day morning at 6:1S, arriving
Gardiner at $50, Hallowell at 6:44
and Augusta at $50.
Train No. IL will have an earlier
departure time leaving Portland at
IL noon daily except Saturday and
reaching Augusta at 1854 and Ban
gor at AIS.
An afternoon train from Portland
to change from daylight saving time
1t will leave Portland every week
day afternoon at 4:40 and arrive in
Augusta at 6:55, making its last stop
at Waterville at 1880 P. M.
For a similar reason the Pine Tree
Limited also shows an hours differ
ence in time, leaving Portland daily
except Suday at 1910 and reaching
Augusta at $3.50 and Bangor at 10: so.
In the reverse direction, the Pine
Tree Limited and the morning local
run on practically the same sched-
ule. These two trains will leave
here week day mornings at 1854 and
S:4S, reaching Portland at 1850 and
11:10 A. M. respectively.
The Portland Limited will leave
Bangor at 1888 daily except Sunday
and will run fifteen minutes earlier
than during the summer. It will
reach here at 9:2S, arriving at Port
land at 11:15 A. M.
The afternoon local will leave Wa
terville at 2:35 week day afternoons,
four minutes earlier than during the
summer but none of the other times
Of this train is changed. It will
reach Augusta at 3:14 p. M, arriv-
ing Portland at half past five.
The afternoon express which has
been leaving Bangor at las P. NJ.
daily except Sunday. one of the
quickest trains on the system, will
run ten minutes earlier than during
the summer, leaving Bangor at 1880.
Augusta at 8; 81, arriving in Port
land at 5:45.
The South Gardiner local will con-
tinue without change, leaving Au-
gusta every week day afternoon at
Sis and arriving Hallowell 5:22,
Gardiner at $3.50 and South Gardiner
5:45.
The milk train will have a few
minor changes. 1t will continue to
leave Bangor at S:15 daily except