New Zealand Railways

Author : Sam van der Weerden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781990048098
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Graham Hutchins
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1775594343
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going By Train written by Graham Hutchins and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railways played a pivotal part in the development of New Zealand’s economy, towns and cities, and helped shape a distinctive culture. This is a comprehensive account of our railways story, from the earliest days of the colony, through rail’s growth and golden days, slow decline and recent resurgence. Fully illustrated, and written in a very readable style, rail fans and general readers alike will enjoy its wide-ranging topics, generous illustrations, anecdotes and personal accounts.

Author : Neill Atkinson
Publisher : Random House (New Zealand)
ISBN 13 : 9781869419059
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trainland written by Neill Atkinson and published by Random House (New Zealand). This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railways have played a central role in New Zealand politics, economics, trade union history, tourism and popular culture. Yet rail history has been largely neglected by professional historians. While the field has long been popular with enthusiasts, they have tended to focus on locomotive and rolling stock minutiae, engineering feats and so on, and have paid little attention to social and cultural aspects. This stunning looking book includes a brief outline of the development of rail in NZ; and looks at who uses the trains and why; daily life on and off the rails; the train in popular culture and the collective memory. Neill Atkinson is a professional historian with the Ministry of Culture and Heritage in Wellington and the depth of his research is matched by the accessibility of his writing.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Zealand Railway Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Alsop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995133839
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railways Studios written by Peter Alsop and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For many decades the Railways Department's design studio, Railways Studios, was New Zealand's 'go-to' advertiser. Its tourism and product ads appeared on railway-station hoardings and billboards throughout the land, and it developed some of New Zealand's most iconic graphic images"--Publisher information.

Author : Geoffrey B. Churchman
Publisher : Otago Heritage Books
ISBN 13 : 9780908876204
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railways of New Zealand written by Geoffrey B. Churchman and published by Otago Heritage Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive history of New Zealand's railways since the 1860s to the present day, illustrated with over 300 photographs.

Author : Sean Millar
Publisher : Nz Railway and Locomotive Society
ISBN 13 : 9780908573899
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The NZR Steam Locomotive written by Sean Millar and published by Nz Railway and Locomotive Society. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1863 and 1971 the steam locomotive was the best known part of railways, and these steel kings of the steel road touched everyone{u2019}s lives. Stories abound regarding the steam locomotive and what made them special. This is a history of the steam locomotives owned by New Zealand{u2019}s national railway system. Numbering more than a thousand, they were enormously varied {u2013} ranging from little over five tons to almost 148 tons in weight, and from the occasional failure to trend-setting designs of international significance. This book combines the best available research with the largest collection of photographs on the subject ever assembled. Each locomotive is described by class with brief specifications, and information about the work each performed in New Zealand locomotive history.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Zealand Railways Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New Zealand Railways
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on New Zealand Railways written by New Zealand Railways and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Bromby
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ISBN 13 : 9781310237676
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book New Zealand Railways written by Robin Bromby and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand railway builders surmounted many obstacles: the terrain, a sparse and scattered population, two islands separated by an often stormy stretch of water, demands from every small settlement for their own railway line. But build a railway system -- and a comprehensive one at that -- New Zealand did. This is the story of that railway, from its heyday to the day of reckoning as losses had to be confronted.By 1953 the pattern was clear. The era of railways as the mainstay of land transport throughout New Zealand was ending. One by one, most of the rural branches would disappear over the next forty years; passenger train travel -- other than commuter services in Auckland and Wellington -- would almost disappear to a stage where there are just a handful of tourist services on the most scenic lines; all but the largest towns would lose their railway station.But, until then, the railways of New Zealand were part of almost everyone's life: you caught the train to visit friends and relatives in other parts of New Zealand, you depended on the trains to carry the bulk of the freight that moved to and from the ports. This is their story. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps.