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GREAT NEW ZEALAND RAILWAY JOURNEYS

Graham Hutchins

Sit back and enjoy the ride while Graham Hutchins takes you on a journey of discovery around New Zealand.

Starting in the deep south with the steam-driven Kingston Flyer and the historic Taieri Gorge Railway, he describes a dozen unique rail journeys, ending up at Auckland’s 21st-century Britomart Station. He joins tourists from around the world on the celebrated TranzAlpine Express, travels the major TranzCoastal and Overlander lines, and explores a number of shorter trips en route, including the special Art Deco excursion train to Napier.

Hutchins’ narrative is always lively and entertaining — a personal travelogue in which he describes the main features of the landscape while enjoying conversations with fellow-travellers he meets along the way.

Well informed on New Zealand’s past, he offers fascinating historical information on the areas he is passing through, mourns the lines that have been lost, and for dedicated rail buffs he also provides technical details about the trains themselves.

Accompanied by many superb photographs of New Zealand’s incomparable scenery, this is a book to treasure — and to return to again and again.

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