Touring By Train
(Special Crspdt N.Z P.A.) SYDNEY, November 5. Nearly 60 members of the Australian Railway Historical Society will begin a threeweek New Zealand tour on November 24. The train tourists will travel nearly 3000 miles by rail in the Dominion, using chartered rail-cars, diesel and steam-hauled trains. After arriving in Auckland on November 24, they will visit Western Springs, Rotorua, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Napier and Wellington, where they will inspect the Kelburn Cable Car and the Queen Elizabeth Park Tramway Museum at Paekakariki. After crossing Cook Strait on the Aramoana they will visit South Island beauty spots, travelling some of the way on trains still hauled by steam locomotives.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31519, 6 November 1967, Page 26
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