Driver's Eye View (New Zealand) - Takapau to Palmerston North via the Manawatū Gorge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 เม.ย. 2024
- In this video we return to our train having enjoyed lunch and wine tasting at the “Oruawharo Homestead”. This time the lead engine is DB class locomotive No.1254 with 1955 vintage General Motors diesel locomotive No.DA1410 assisting.
Passengers were transported by bus to “Silver Fern Farms” sidings where the special excursion train, the “Hawkes Bay Wine and Food by Rail” was waiting to take passengers back to Paekakariki with intermediate stops for passengers wishing to alight closer to home. We ease out of the sidings onto the Gisbourne Line (PNGL) heading back towards Palmerston North via the Manawatū Gorge.
The Manawatū Gorge is no longer traversed by road due to a severe landslip that closed the road to all traffic, with no likelihood of it ever opening again, today the gorge can only be seen from the railway or river itself. The first part of the journey to Woodville passes through rolling hills with lofty viaducts carrying the tracks high above numerous river valleys, shortly after Woodville we enter the gorge where our driver cautiously eases his train along a ledge cut into steep gorge side and over a succession bridges high above the river with breath taking views of the gorge fore and aft. As we leave the gorge we pass the construction site for the new bridge that will carry State Highway 3 on a new route avoiding the gorge. Finally we join the electrified North Island Main Trunk for the last few kilometers of our journey into Palmerston North. Please look out for the next part of this trip - Palmerston North to Paekākāriki.
If you'd like to know more about Steam Incorporated and the awesome excursions they run, please click on this link - www.steaminc.org.nz/
Maps at 00:50 & 00:58 - OpenRailwayMap - Use of the 'OpenRailwayMap' mark is licenced by the OpenStreetMap Foundation
Track Gauge - 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Can't sleep. It's 3:33 A.M here in Red Deer, Alberta. I am 26 minutes into this video and thinking, WHAT AN AWESOME discovery on TH-cam this morning. I am really enjoying this train ride through some of the most exquisite landscapes in the world. In praise of NewZealand and praises to the drivers of trains, especially those who film themselves on the job and staring forward. Driving a train is a very important job that carries a great weight of responsibility. I have always liked trains and enjoy watching these sorts of excursions from the cab. Thanks a lot for posting this. May your rail travels continue to be safe and enjoyable.
Pleistocene railway line. Wooden sleepers when practically no advanced country uses them (they are made of concrete).
Sorry the camera position is not okay, to left. In the middle was better.
Another masterpiece of a video.... One thing that I'm happy to note after watching this video; is that the sheep/lambs trespassing onto the railway in NZ are every bit as dull as those who used to trespass onto the railway on my patch in South Wales UK... I simply lost count of how many sheep/lambs (unintentionally) went under the wheels of my train & thus failed to make it to the dinnerplate in my 40 years of driving trains... Now happily retired...
Seeing the greenery is good, hearing the tracks adds to it. : )
Clouds look like CGI
You can hear the quality of the train rails from the noise: New Zealand is fine. Greece is terrible lol
How many km?
I will add that i always hated traveling through the gorge by car before landslides effectively shut it down, and now i can see what the tracks have in store
Nice videos
THERE ARE SHEEP AT
Loved your previous tour of Manawatu and enjoying this one too. Beautiful! Thanks Tim
Love it!! thanks for taking us along for the ride.😊👍👍👍
A fantastic and picturesque rides this day. The goats were lucky! The weather is great, interesting to gaze at. Thank Tim for the film this day. Cheers Tim! 🇦🇺🙂👍🇺🇸
I have been liking to see this for many years nd I hv seen landscapings of many countries through this medium...I really like the railway even though it passes through forests and mountains.
You all are amazing. Thank you for the love and positivity!
Oh i was so scared for the poor sheep especially that one that almost died😭 lovely creatures. I'm so glad they all made it❤ thanks for being patient with them
Used to love traveling the gorge by car and always wondered what it was like on the other side.. thanks heaps, love this!
good sound~~
Those lambs had me STRESSING