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Other Transport => Interstate & International => Topic started by: Bus 400 on July 04, 2015, 11:32:10 PM

Title: New Zealand Buses, Tram & Trains
Post by: Bus 400 on July 04, 2015, 11:32:10 PM
Here are a couple of photos of buses from New Zealands South Island.

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From Christchurch is a bus just for the Purple line which runs from the Airport through the city to the foot of the hills to Sumner.

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From Ferrymead Heritage Park is the ex-Christchurch trolley bus. They have a shed of them, but the time I was there the shed was shut.

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Also at Ferrymead, is this tram runing around the "village". At the tram sheds, is a collection of old Christchurch buses. But my camera died when I went to photograph these buses.

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Just out of Christchurch, in Governors Bay is this double decker.

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To not leave Dunedin out, is this bus in Dunedin.

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We finish off on the TransAlpine train that runs from Christchurch to Greymouth. Here is the train waiting at Otira for its banker engine up to Arthurs Pass. For a 5 carriage train, it consists of 2 engines & 1 banker. Coal trains consist of 30 carriages & have 2 engines & 3 bankers for this same journey.
For those who don't know what a banker is, it's another engine at the rear to either push the train from the rear or hold the train going down the hill from the rear.
Title: Re: New Zealand Buses, Tram & Trains
Post by: Sir Pompously on March 02, 2016, 05:00:18 PM
Great shots however that Volvo trolley bus is in fact a Wellington City trolley bus in Stagecoach Wellington livery :-) The red livery looks much better on these