"a line that once went up to a mine" There were mines and sawmills along the route, but actually the line to Stratford, Taranaki via Whangamomona. This now hosts the tourist attraction 'Forgotten World Adventures' where you can travel the entire line in a self-drive buggy-on-rails type vehicle.
Kiwirail has said that the re-opening of this line to traffic is a priority- since it creates an alternative route to the difficult 'Main Trunk Line' section from Marton to Taumaranui via the Volcanic Plateau*. Fat chance of that happening under this government.
*Following the 1953 Tangiwai disaster, this was a lifeline to the NIMTL.
After I published this, I went down to Brian's. Kelly came in holding a pitchfork (American Gothic). Then I went to the beach, where there were severed camellia branches twined in the seaweed.
"a line that once went up to a mine" There were mines and sawmills along the route, but actually the line to Stratford, Taranaki via Whangamomona. This now hosts the tourist attraction 'Forgotten World Adventures' where you can travel the entire line in a self-drive buggy-on-rails type vehicle.
Kiwirail has said that the re-opening of this line to traffic is a priority- since it creates an alternative route to the difficult 'Main Trunk Line' section from Marton to Taumaranui via the Volcanic Plateau*. Fat chance of that happening under this government.
*Following the 1953 Tangiwai disaster, this was a lifeline to the NIMTL.
After I published this, I went down to Brian's. Kelly came in holding a pitchfork (American Gothic). Then I went to the beach, where there were severed camellia branches twined in the seaweed.
I love your writing more than anyone else’s on here.
High praise! Thank you!
Beautiful. Essence capture magic :)
Amazing. I pick up EVERY SINGLE hitchhiker t opay back my years of hitch hiking.
As I have become older and more middle class my wife has freaked out now and then at the roughness of some of these guys.
But I will do it till one kills me ;)