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Kōrero: Railways

Buying back the railways

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Buying back the railways

Helen Clark’s Labour-led government bought the railway network and ferries from Melbourne-based Toll Holdings for $665 million in mid-2008. Garrick Tremain’s cartoon depicts Clark with Minister of Finance Michael Cullen. The circular track is a reference to the way the railways have come full circle – in 1993 the government had sold them to a private consortium for $328 million.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: DCDL-0006972

by Garrick Tremain

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Neill Atkinson, Railways – Rail transformed, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/21422/buying-back-the-railways (accessed 12 July 2026).

He kōrero nā Neill Atkinson, i tāngia i te 6 April 2010.