Ebook: Last Train to Paradise: Journeys from the Golden Age of New Zealand Railways

Cover; Also by Graham Hutchins:; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Sleepless in Taihape: The Auckland -- Wellington Express, 1955; 2 A prince among travellers: The royal train, 1920; 3 Last stop, Bay of Islands: The Opua Express, 1946; 4 Taking the waters and the train: The Rotorua Limited, 1930; 5 Train to nowhere: The Taneatua Express, 1939; 6 Steaming past the mountain: The New Plymouth Express, 1935; 7 A year before the quake: The Napier Express, 1930; 8 South for the summer: The South Island Express, 1926; 9 Buller or bust: The Nelson Express, 1926.;LAST TRAIN TO PARADISE is a celebratory account of a time when train travel was more than just the accepted means of travelling around New Zealand. It was also an era when rail journeys provided excitement, companionship and romance. Royal trains, troop trains, rugby specials, tourist trains ... all come to life in Graham Hutchins' evocative descriptions of rail travel in the golden age.