Interesting view of a piece of country i know well yet it's a route i have never followed! I love picton, I have always imagined spending my last years there! thanks for sharing
That was fun, especially when you started up the hill and the motors amped up. You can tell its a solid work horse. More please. Thanks from Las Vegas.
@@raymondwelsh6028 Is that the same for passenger trains? I thought they would have British HST sets capable of 130 MPH. I wouldn't feel very stable on narrow gauge!
The NZ mainline network is in cape gauge. The same mainline gauge used in Japan, Taiwan, South Africa, most other former British colonies in Africa, and in the Australian states of Tasmania, Queensland, and Western Australia. The maximum speed on the NZ mainline is 120km/h (~75mph in backward units). Although most trains rarely go much faster than 90km/h. So yeah I can’t imagine trains going over 200km/h on the NZ network either. I can’t imagine why anyone would.
@@shhmule I don’t mean to be rude. But where would you ever get the idea that now-retired 50 year old HST units used in some country on the other side of the world would ever be used in NZ?! We barely have any intercity passenger rail services. Population base is low and political leadership has been pro-automobile for 50 years.
