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    Governor General on TranzAlpine journey". www.kiwirail.co.nz. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016. "Tranzalpine scenic train...
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    tourism division of KiwiRail that operate its three Scenic train services (TranzAlpine, Northern Explorer and Coastal Pacific). The new division was launched...
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    longest of which is the Otira tunnel. It is the route of the popular TranzAlpine passenger train. Railway development in the South Island in the 1870s...
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    long-distance passenger trains, the Coastal Pacific to Picton and the TranzAlpine to Greymouth. and the Southerner to Dunedin. The current station is the...
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    Coastal Pacific (redirect from TranzCoastal)
    In April 2006, Toll NZ announced its intention to sell the TranzCoastal and the TranzAlpine. However, with the purchase of Toll NZ's rail assets in 2008...
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  • 2002. The carriages were re-allocated to the TranzAlpine between Christchurch and Greymouth and the TranzCoastal between Christchurch and Picton. Invercargill...
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    a small number of tourist orientated passenger services, such as the TranzAlpine, Coastal Pacific and Northern Explorer. Dunedin Railways also operate...
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    being replaced by a DFB/T, DXB or occasionally a DXC unit and on the TranzAlpine until being replaced by two DXC locomotives. A DC class locomotive is...
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  • services: Interislander, Northern Explorer, Coastal Pacific and the TranzAlpine. Before 1962, the North Island and South Island rail networks were not...
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  • passenger transport subsidiary of KiwiRail, operating the Northern Explorer, TranzAlpine and Coastal Pacific. The passenger trains are predominantly patronised...
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    ceased running along the SWL to Reefton and Westport in 1967, but the TranzAlpine runs the length of the Midland Line from Christchurch to Greymouth and...
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    use on the TranzAlpine and later re-numbered ASO27, and was quickly followed by further upgraded carriages, primarily on the TranzAlpine. The second...
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    railways, and Rolleston became a stop only for the tourist-oriented TranzAlpine rail service. In 1993 Rolleston saw one of the country's worst level-crossing...
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  • the West Coast Expresses was superseded by the TranzAlpine. The Coastal Pacific and the TranzAlpine are the only passenger trains to depart from Christchurch...
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    its opening marked by the British and Intercolonial Exhibition. The TranzAlpine passenger railway service passes through Arthur's Pass and the Otira...
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    have been extracted, the door is reopened. Because of the fumes, the TranzAlpine's observation cars are closed for the trip through the tunnel. Wright...
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    AKS for KiwiRail including the Northern Explorer, Coastal Pacific and TranzAlpine. A further twelve of the carriages have been refurbished into the SR...
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    v t e The TranzAlpine passenger train stops (Midland line) Christchurch Rolleston Darfield Springfield Arthur's Pass Moana Greymouth...
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  • Railways Department Auckland - Thames 1908 1928 TranzAlpine New Zealand Railways Corporation, Tranz Scenic, KiwiRail Scenic Journeys, The Great Journeys...
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    passenger cars for its two South Island long distance passenger trains, the TranzAlpine and the Coastal Pacific, classed AK. Part of the project also includes...
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  • station in the Westland District of the West Coast of New Zealand. The TranzAlpine Express passes through Jacksons. Jacksons was the railhead for the Midland...
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    of Lake Brunner. The Midland Line railway passes through Moana; the TranzAlpine tourist passenger train passes through once in each direction daily,...
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    installed, for duty on the TranzAlpine. This van is used in the middle of the train, to separate the increasingly lengthy TranzAlpine into two self-contained...
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  • Hutt Railway Workshops, along with the second of the original two TranzAlpine and TranzCoastal servery observation carriages, as the Overlander continues...
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    of the regional rail network. The station is currently served by the TranzAlpine, which runs daily between Greymouth and Christchurch, and is operated...
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    servery/observation/rear-view car, and what was once both The Connoisseur car and TranzAlpine rear-view/observation car and the two Northerner modular handbrake end-mounted...
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    cancellation in 2002. The most famous train to depart Christchurch is the TranzAlpine, which travels along the Main South Line to Rolleston and then turns...
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  • was fully re-equipped, with two former Picton – Greymouth later TranzAlpine and TranzCoastal panorama cars, the first Southerner power-luggage van with...
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    services on the South Island Main Trunk are the Coastal Pacific and the TranzAlpine, which uses the short portion of the Main South Line between Christchurch...
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    KiwiRail reported that the TranzAlpine service was terminating at Greymouth and the TranzCoastal terminating at Picton. The TranzAlpine was cancelled until 4...
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