Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1912 — French Railroad Schedules. [ARTICLE]

French Railroad Schedules.

When a train gets in the habit of being late on an American railroad something drastic is done about it, but on the state-owned railroads of France they have a different plan. On the Paris-Rouen run the time of the express trains used to be announced at one hour and fofty-flve minutes, but the actual time was two hours and six minutes. So they rearranged the time table to fit that actual elapsed time. What could be simpler? And then the traffic manager put across another rearrangement The 7.50 train from Parts got in the habit of arriving twenty-four minutes late. So the traffic boss started, it thirty-one minutes earlier, thus getting passengers into Rouen seven minutes ahead of the time it used to be officially due.