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Railways of New Zealand A Journey through History by Churchman & Hurs W/DJ
Railways of New Zealand A Journey through History by Geoffrey Churchman & Tony Hurs
The Railways of New Zealand
A Journey through history.
Geoffrey B. Churchman & Tony Hurst
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
224 Pages
Copyright First Published 1990 This 2nd edition Published in 2001
Contents
Introduction7
New Zealand land and people10
PART ONE Development
1. A network takes shape14
2. Life on board72
3. Down at the station82
4. Bush tramways86
PART TWO The system
5. Northland92
6. Auckland and Waikato 99
7. Bay of Plenty105
8. North Island Main Trunk118
9. Taranaki and Wanganui130
10. Hawke's Bay and Gisborne141
11. Wellington149
12. Nelson and Marlborough170
13. Canterbury176
14. The Midland Line184
15. Westland188
16. Otago200
17. Southland210
18. Steam lives on!215
Index222
Bibliography 224
The first edition of this book was published in 1990 to mark New Zealand's sesquicentenary-150 years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The beginning of a new century and millennium seemed an appropriate occasion for a new edition, particularly as the intervening period has seen substantial changes.
It is easy to overlook the fundamental role the railways have played in New Zealand's development and in the lives of its people. Today aircraft, cars and trucks dominate the scene and trains are used only by a small minority. A century ago, however, trains were the most important form of transport; aviation did not exist and motoring was in its infancy.
When the first settlers arrived from Britain in the middle of the nineteenth century the railway revolution there was in full swing and the significance and importance of railway transport to the development of the new country would have been foremost in their minds. The long, arduous and at times dangerous nature of transport and communications between the various settlements around the long coastline made the establishment of provincial governments appropriate which set about their own ambitious railway projects, not only to link the ports with each other but to open up and develop the hinterland. Yet very little was actually constructed by the provinces. By 1870 only 74 km of line had been openedbuilt, as in Australia, in three different gauges.
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