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South Island Limited Overview Service type Express Status Replaced First service 1 August 1949 Last service 1 December 1970 Successor Southerner Former operator(s) New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) Route Termini Christchurch Invercargill Line(s) used Main South Line Technical Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) The South Island Limited was a passenger express train operated by the New Zealand ...
The introduction of the J class and J A class in 1939 and 1946 respectively was the final development in steam motive power, and they took just 7 hours 9 minutes to haul the "South Island Limited" express from Christchurch to Dunedin. During their heyday, these steam-hauled expresses were famous for the speeds they attained across the ...
After panorama carriages were introduced, the train's popularity increased. Tranz Scenic introduced extra Christchurch-Dunedin, Invercargill-Christchurch, Christchurch-Invercargill and Dunedin-Christchurch services on Fridays, numbered #903 to #906. These were short-lived, ceasing in 1996 after a level-crossing accident at Hilderthorpe, North ...
The first railway to open in Christchurch was the Ferrymead railway, linking the province's main port with Christchurch, a distance of 7 km. With the opening of the Lyttelton rail tunnel in 1867 and subsequent rise of Lyttelton as the region's port, Ferrymead lost its importance and the railway was closed, having outlived its usefulness.
Passenger Transport Citibus buses at the Dunedin depot. Invercargill Passenger Transport Ltd was a bus company which operated public transport routes in Dunedin and Invercargill as well as school transport services in those cities as well as Queenstown and leisure and tourism transport services throughout the South Island of New Zealand
Commuter trains operated multiple routes around Christchurch and Dunedin, plus a service between Invercargill and Bluff. Due to substantial losses, these were cancelled between the late 1960s and early 1980s. The final services to operate ran between Dunedin's City Centre and the suburb of Mosgiel, and they ceased in 1982. [52]
Initially, the Dunedin business had to financially support the Christchurch branch, but under Barnett's business leadership in Christchurch, the situation changed and Christchurch supported the Dunedin branch. [3] The Christchurch premises were in the central city at 174 Hereford Street, [7] and from 1905 on the opposite side of the road at 163 ...
Christchurch railway station building (Moorhouse Avenue) One of the more notable events in the history of this station was the commissioning of New Zealand's first electrified suburban rail service in 1929. This service operated between Christchurch station and Lyttelton using Ec class locomotives.