Contents

Introduction

1: The Moonlight Express

2: Heading for the far east

3: Sea lions on the line

4: Seeking Mecca and finding the Rewanui Incline

5: Change here for heaven

6: The world’s southernmost rail journey

7: The railcar that could

8: Train to Morpheus

9: The Dreamlander

10: Déjà Vu Express

11: Trundling on the 542

12: In the wake of the Taneatua Express

13: Twenty-first Century Limited

Bibliography

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