Can't get there from here : New Zealand passenger rail since 1920
Maker and role
Andre Brett, Author
Production date
2021
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Object detail
Accession number
PUB-2022-525
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Description
Contents: Foreword / Anthonie Tonnon -- Introduction (What trains are we talking about? ; Limited express, mixed trains and other members of the railway vocabulary ; Power, control and branding) -- 1. The network in 1920 (An emerging competitor) -- 2. 1920-1928: The regional railway falters (1920-28: Grand visions, realised incompletely ; 1920-28: The end of the rural branch line ; 1921: The first cuts ; 1926-28: The buses are coming) -- 3. 1929-1934: A Royal Commission and its aftermath (1929-30: Reconsidering rail's role ; 1930: Tinkering at the edges ; 1930-31: Outcomes of the Royal Commission ; 1932: Whanganui loses suburban rail ; 1931-33: Legislative protection, rural contraction ; 1933: Something to celebrate) -- 4. 1935-1945: A network unified in the face of adversity (1935-37: A modern railway for the capital ; 1936-39: Wairoa gets its railway ; 1936-40: Linking Canterbury and Marlborough ; 1936-40: Regulation and contraction ; 1940-45: Closing the gaps -- 5. 1945-1954: The drift to road (NZR and the post-war transition ; 1945-50: Post-war contraction ; 1951-54: The Waterfront Dispute and its consequences ; 1951-54: More lost opportunities ; 1946-54: A different purpose for rail) -- 6. 1955-1968: The Fiat fiasco (1955-58: Railcars and the Remutakas ; 1958-59: Finalising the railcar network ; 1959-66; An important principle of policy in Invercargill ; 1955-60: Rural attrition ; 1967-68: Flawed Fiats and trimmed timetables) -- 7. 1970-1989: The emotive term "railcars": cancellation in town and country (1970-76: Farewell to rural and miners' trains ; 1971-1978: Railcar routes rot ; 1972-81: Suburban subtractions ; 1983-88: The final echoes of the developmental railway ; 1989: The platforms are quiet) -- 8. 1990-2020: The false dawn (1991: Revival? ; 1991-2000: Privatisation and the passenger train ; 2001-02: The regional passenger train's annus horribilis ; The difficult 2000s ; 2001-20: Changing fortunes in Auckland -- 9. Whither passenger rail in New Zealand? (How did we get here? ; The network in 2020 ; What might the future hold? ; The myths we must not tell ourselves ; What will we need to revitalise passenger rail? ; Upper North Island ; Lower North Island ; North Island Main Trunk ; South Island ; Hamilton ; Tauranga ; Taranaki ; Napier -- Hastings ; Christchurch ; Dunedin ; Where else? ; All aboard) -- Appendix 1: Routes open to passengers on 1 January 1920 -- Appendix 2: Timeline 1920-2020 -- Appendix 3: Lines with a timetabled passenger service at 1 January 2020 (Physical lines open to passengers ; Operators and routes operated ; Major networks since 1 January 2020).
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Physical description
367 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781990048098
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Item
Credit line
Andre Brett. 2021. Can't get there from here : New Zealand passenger rail since 1920, PUB-2022-525. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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