Covering KiwiRail's Main South Line - Winter 2024

In Winter of 2024, we set out to film trains on KiwiRail's Main South Line. The line runs from Christchurch to Invercargill, and mainly serves container and dairy traffic.
Most of the trains in the video are filmed in/around Dunedin, however we did chase train 934 from Dunedin to Oamaru, and some miscellaneous trains around Christchurch are also included near the end of the video.
This is the last of our South Island videos - expect some different sort of content very soon!
Enjoy!

[@RollestonRails]

Bloody awesome video hunter great camera work.

[@RomaRomaUA]

Amazing video! New Zealand is so beautiful! Have a nice day! Greetings from Ukraine 🇺🇦!

[@krdcountrytv]

Some great footage. How much traffic is there running between Christchurch and Invercargill on an average day?

[@brianmckenzie1739]

There's not much tonnage and trains are short. The large number of DM class locos will be overkill when they arrive - so after replacing DX types, I expect many of the new locos will gravitate to the North Island - especially if the electrification is mothballed to ease demand on power supplies.
There might even be a case for sending the DL class to the South and keeping all the DM in the North?
Sadly, the long-haul trucking industry has scooped up customers in the south.

[@TheKiwianTrainspotting]

Hey, there's around 8 trains that run between Christchurch and Dunedin, and 4 between Dunedin and Invercargill, plus the various shunts that run out to places like Dunedin or Timaru. On weekends, the line is almost completely dead.