Thanks very much. I really enjoy your station montages. The thumbnail or cover image , whatever, reminded me immediately of Montreal’s (CNR) Central Station completed in 1943: the smooth brickwork surfaces, blocked shape and the accent lines around sets of windows. Speaking of employee memorials, when Toronto Union Station, opened by the Prince of Wales in 1927, was renovated in the 2010’s the bronze or brass wall plaque to railway employees lost in the Great War vanished from its place of prominence. I don’t know where it went. I hope that it’s still somewhere visible there, and not secreted away as if deemed irrelevant to moderns.
Yes, but only two, the Coastal Pacific service to Picton, which links up with the ferry to Wellington and the TranzAlpine service to Greymouth. The Southerner service to Dunedin stopped running in 2002.
Thanks very much. I really enjoy your station montages.
The thumbnail or cover image , whatever, reminded me immediately of Montreal’s (CNR) Central Station completed in 1943: the smooth brickwork surfaces, blocked shape and the accent lines around sets of windows.
Speaking of employee memorials, when Toronto Union Station, opened by the Prince of Wales in 1927, was renovated in the 2010’s the bronze or brass wall plaque to railway employees lost in the Great War vanished from its place of prominence. I don’t know where it went. I hope that it’s still somewhere visible there, and not secreted away as if deemed irrelevant to moderns.
Don't know anything about New Zealand other than Black Friday comes from there.
Still, a damn shame that they tore down a beautiful station!
Hi from Michigan USA . Is there any passenger rail service at all out of Christchurch ?
Yes, but only two, the Coastal Pacific service to Picton, which links up with the ferry to Wellington and the TranzAlpine service to Greymouth. The Southerner service to Dunedin stopped running in 2002.
Going to the west coast and picton. Not Invercargill