Kapiti Island is a bird sanctuary. You can take boat trips over there and walk right to the highest peak. There are some people that live at the northern most end. It is overseen by the Department of Conservation. The road along side the track and the sea used to be State Highway 1 until Transmission Gully opened. T.G. is now S.H 1 and the road along the coast is now highway 59. You did that trip on a lovely day with the clear sky. It was low tide as well because those rocks along the coast are covered at high tide, and in rough weather the water can go over the road.
Amazing train review, I remember traversing the same last stretch of railway on the Norther Explorer coming into Wellington last year. It's some absolutely stunning coast line down there on the Kapiti coast especially at sunset!
I used to live in Toronto where your commute on the subway can take an hour the entire time underground, and 4500 people fit on a train, and trains run every three minutes and they move millions of people daily. I now live on this line by comparison this is heaven on earth
Wellington train driver here. The third track at Porirua isn't for express services, all the express trains stop at Porirua. It's not exactly clear why that loop is electrified since we never use it, but in theory we could run around a disabled train there.
I always find public transport in the Wellington to be very useable, with frequent bus and train services serving the whole region. Also have used the Capital Connection from and to Palmerston North and also several times gone to Masterton on the very good service to that town via the Hutt Valley. I grew up in the UK, so am very used to good public transport.
When I was a kid Paekakariki was the terminus for electric trains.I remember the old steam locomotives which were still used in the early 1960s.That closed station [MURI] was open at that time and I used it to go to Kapiti college.[you had to take a bus to finish the journey to Paraparaumu.] The electrified line was extended to Waikanae decades later.
The Palmerston North express is a commuter train for people who live in P.N. and work in Wellington that's why it only runs once a day, early morning and return at night. I would not do it, too long a day, although I have heard that people sleep on their trip to Wellington!!!!!
Bro this is hilarious. I only really watch videos about anime and gaming stuff so i'm shocked a video about wellington came into my recommendeds lmao. Kinda wild to see people even make videos about the transport i take daily but hey i guess you can find anything on the internet lol.
Yes, but the bus to Kenepuru hospital leaves directly from Porirua station, whereas it's a reasonable walk uphill from Kenepuru station to the hospital including crossing the river and a major road. . I think they assume that some of the people using public transport are going to be mobility impaired so saying to use Porirua and the bus is easier.
The way you pronounce Paraparaumu, is you basically have to be able to Roll your 'R's, and the 'A's are said as "Ah", other than that you got it pretty much right my bro, Cheers for driving our line and yea its bad public transport lmao.
Also, FP/FT 4xxx are the original batch of 48 sets. 5xxx are the top-up order of another 35 sets, which were I think fitted with upgrades like Scharfenberg couplers from the factory, plus some tweaks to improve performance on the JVille line. You'll only find 5xxx sets on the JVille line. The last digit on all the NZ TMS numbers (including freight locos) is a check digit, so you won't find e.g. both an FP4443 and FP4444. There is a DC4444 locomotive, though.
My favourite line. 46:20 I have ridden my bike along the coast going north before, It's only slightly terrifying 48:31 It's named after the coastline that it goes to, Kapiti Coast. Also Kapiti Island 52:08 Double yellow line works the same as Australia's double white line, no passing. 52:20 Yes, when there's no restrictions the trains can go up to about 100km/h (sometimes 110 even if they're not supposed to). 59:41 I'm pretty sure one side of the car says FT and the other says FP, that's all I know 1:02:39 Yeah New Zealand runs on common sense
Re NZ running on common sense, new crossings being installed or upgraded (e.g. Tawa College) get pedestrian gates. Ngaio station has a completely uncontrolled (no lights, no barriers) crossing at the end of the platforms. It's not too bad because all trains stop. I've been meaning to get some footage.
@@Ducky_man931 Yeah but this was the middle of the day and all other trains except this one were two cars. Plus my one was 8 but 2 were just not being used which is quite strange.
@@TransportofPerth 2 being not used is the normal, I'm not sure if this was a special service or something but during the middle of the day it is only about 2-4 carrigages, the two not being used is for when they transfer to peak services
@@TransportofPerth new Zealanders aka kiwis are dumb and would press the open door button to the closed part, then take too much time to find out how to get on the train then they miss the train!
Metlink does seem to have a bit of a problem with figuring out how many carriages to run. They've been lambasted a few times for failing to notice e.g. sporting events, fireworks displays, and major protest marches. In this case, though, they don't like to couple trains at the platforms if they can avoid it. This one will have arrived right at peak time and they will have sent it back out immediately as a fully-loaded 8-car. It also probably saw a bit of school traffic on the way back in. Night services returning to the city tend to be large trains (because they're returning peak trains) but very empty (opposite direction of peak; perhaps 10x pax). Typically they only have one unit open. In the days of the old Ganz sets, the guards could open doors together or individually (no passenger buttons) so would only open the leading door in the whole set, so everyone is in the first car. This also means they don't have to walk the whole length of the train to collect tickets, and everyone is line-of-sight to the guard, so there's less vandalism concern.
@TransportofPerth probably the "child made up these names" comment. They're all Te Reo Māori words that contain a lot of descriptive meaning about the surrounding area.
@@TransportofPerth I would agree that to the uninitiated ear, some of the Maori place names would sound a bit funny or weird. However, the same could be said for some of the Aboriginal town and city names in Australia (e.g. Woolloomoolloo, Wagga Wagga and so on). I guess they don't seem so unusual or strange when you grow up with them. That aside, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. For the first ten years of my life, Linden was my home station. Back in the late 1970s though, English Electrics ruled the lines, and then the Hungarian Ganz-Mavag units came in from about the early 1980s. The signage on the platforms was quite different too. The station names would be in big black block letters on a white background. While those signs were quite "old school" (probably dating back to the 1930s or even earlier) and rather ugly, they were much easier to read from inside a train than the modern ones IMO.
