Download or read book Can t Get There from Here written by Sam van der Weerden and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban passenger rail patronage in Auckland and Wellington is now booming after many years of decline. Outside these two centres, however, the situation is quite different: intercity and regional passenger rail services are scarce, and no other city possesses suburban rail. Can't Get There from Here traces the expansion and the contraction of New Zealand's passenger rail network over the last century. What is the historical context of today's imbalance between rail and road? How far and wide did the passenger rail network once run? Why is there an abject lack of services beyond the North Island's two main cities, even as demand for passenger transport continues to grow? This book seeks to answer these questions. In this fascinating study, Andre Brett argues that the trend away from passenger rail might appear inevitable and irreversible but it was not. Things could have been - and still could be - very different. We need to understand the challenges that brought passenger rail to the brink of extinction in order to create policy for future transport that is efficient and sustainable.

Download or read book The New Zealand Official Year book written by New Zealand. Department of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Worth A Detour written by Peter Janssen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little known and often quirky places to visit in New Zealand

Download or read book The Randall Family in New Zealand written by Randall McMullan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of stories, facts and photos is about a family living in New Zealand in the twentieth century. The earlier family members crossed the world to live in New Zealand in the 1800s. In this century of the 2000s, later family members travel and live around the world. The information centres on Lindsay Randall and Margaret Ryan and their four children - Clement (Mick), Noreen, Agnes and Audrey. Between them they lived from the 1880s until the 2000s"--Introduction.

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Download or read book Parliamentary Debates Legislative Council and House of Representatives written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wellington s Railways written by David E. Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated record of the Wellington railway system. David Parsons documents progress of the greater Wellington railway system and motive power development through to introduction of the new Matangi multiple units. Also covered are associated transport modes including tramways, the cable car, rail ferries and rail air, with a chapter covering rail transport museums situated within the suburban network. This book is profusely illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs of motive power variants, stations and associated infrastructure.

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Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Last Train to Paradise written by Graham Hutchins and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No book exists specifically on the famous, popular ‘name’ trains that used to run on the New Zealand rail network. The Auckland-Opua Express once carried passengers to the Bay of Islands, the Onehunga Boat Train used to be part of the main route between Auckland and Wellington, and the Rotorua Limited enabled tourists and the well-to-do to take the waters in Rotorua. Later trains like the Silver Star and Northerner - even the Kaimai, Geyserland and Bay Expresses, withdrawn in 2001 - had a distinctive character too.Last Train to Paradise describes the halcyon days of New Zealand rail, some of which the author was fortunate enough to experience personally. The ‘name’ trains and journeys cover a considerable period of New Zealand’s history, from the late 1800s, through the ‘golden’ era of train travel (the first four decades of the 20th century), and conclude with the introduction of new services in the last half of the century. The railway lines described in the book cover every part of the country – and some that have almost been erased from popular memory. Almost everyone in the first half of the 20th century travelled by train – including royalty. In 1869 the first royal train journey from Lyttelton to Christchurch carried the Duke of Edinburgh; the first fully-fledged royal train carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (the future King George V and Queen Mary) plied the route of the Rotorua Limited and the South Island Express; in 1920 the Prince of Wales traversed the country by train with Lord Louis Mountbatten. In 1927 the Duke and Duchess of York (the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) travelled more than 1700 miles by royal train. Other distinguished visitors whose stories will be told in the book include the English comedian J.L.Toole and his company (1890), Australian poet Will Lawson, singers Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Clara Butt, Irish tenor John McCormack and Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin, Polish pianist Ignace Paderewski, ‘March King’ John Philip Sousa and his band, ballerina Anna Pavlova, the 17-year-old violinist Yehudi Menuhin, writers Rudyard Kipling, Zane Grey and George Bernard Shaw, and actors Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. The book will include a wide variety of fascinating and unfamiliar photographs, not just of the trains themselves but also of the people who travelled in them.

Download or read book Single Track Obsession written by Rob Sissons and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel by train from Jasper to Prince Rupert, from Jabalpur to Shimla, from Encarnacion to Asuncion, from Alice Springs to Adelaide, from Helsinki to Moscow and many, many more!

Download or read book Report of the Railways Department for the Year Ended 31 March written by New Zealand Railways and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: