We see the Silver Fern , Bay Express , Northerner , The Wellington to Palmerston North Petrol Train and even a train of Silver Star cars being towed north for storage . The good old days of Fruit Salad Liveried locos.
There certainly seemed to be a lot more freight movements in those days. What a tragedy that the silver star carriages and silver fern railcars never saw their potential usage.
I alway remember catching the bus(Newman)from nelson to Picton with my mum and sister back in the early and late 80s.Then we catch the boat over to wellington then on the day train to Hamilton for holidays at the family farms on the Kaimai.But we use catch the night train back which was bloody awesome.I miss though days....Chers for uploading this!!
Well this brings back some old memories, my dad used to be an engineer out of Westfield and I got to ride on a lot of the engines in this video in the late 80s/early 90s. Thanks for the video!
Excellent catch with the Silver Star cars going north. This was when the cars which had been stored in Wellington since 1979 were going to Auckland. They ran to Taumarunui then continued on the next day.
That was really awesome! Do you have any more footage of "The Northerner"? I remember travelling on that train many times, back in the day when the journey was half the fun :-)
Paekok Station Master I noticed too that the buffet car was missing from the northerner consist, must have been nearing the end of the service using the yellow cars.
