Story: Railways

More links and websites

• KiwiRail

  The website of New Zealand’s government-owned rail and ferry operator.

• Living Heritage – Johnsonville railway

  This exhibition by Raroa Intermediate school pupils provides an interesting account of the Johnsonville railway.

• Locomotives in New Zealand

  A Wikipedia page on New Zealand locomotives.

• New Zealand Historic Places Trust – register

  The Historic Places Trust’s online register contains information on many New Zealand railway stations, tunnels, viaducts and other historic structures.

• NZ History

  The NZ History website includes features on the North Island main trunk line, rail tourism, railway stations, railway songs and the Tangiwai railway disaster.

• New Zealand Locomotives

  Photos of locomotives, on the TrainWeb site.

• Rail New Zealand

  Information about and bookings for New Zealand trains.

More suggestions and sources

• Atkinson, Neill. Trainland: how railways made New Zealand. Auckland: Random House, 2007.
• Bromby, Robin. Rails that built a nation: an encyclopedia of New Zealand railways. Wellington: Grantham House, 2003.
• Churchman, Geoffrey, and Tony Hurst. The railways of New Zealand: a journey through history. Wellington: Transpress, 2001.
• Leitch, David, and Bob Stott. New Zealand railways: the first 125 years. Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1988.
• McQueen, Euan. Rails in the hinterland: New Zealand’s vanishing railway landscape. Wellington: Grantham House, 2005.
• Pierre, Bill. North Island main trunk: an illustrated history. Wellington: Reed, 1981.