Get on track for your latest rail news and reviews

Subscribe
The Railway Hub Logo

Get on track for your latest rail news and reviews

Subscription Offers

Southern Diesel Tour

  • NZ ‘Southern Diesel Tour’ pays visit to South Island

    NZ ‘Southern Diesel Tour’ pays visit to South Island

    Posted

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    AN EXTENSIVE tour covering many lines on the South Island of New Zealand was operated in October. A good proportion of the lines have no regular passenger services. The ‘Southern Diesel Tour’ was hauled by preserved English Electric-built locos owned by the Diesel Traction Group: Di 1102 (Co-Co built in 1966 by English Electric, Rocklea…

Latest Issue

Subscribe

Newsletter Signup

Popular Tags

ASLEF Avanti West Coast British Railways COVID-19 Department for Transport EMU Flying Scotsman From the archive Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Great Central Railway Great Western Railway Guide to Modelling GWR Heritage Railway HS2 Industrial King's Cross Latest issue LNER London Underground Narrow Gauge National Railway Museum Network NETWORK RAIL News North Yorkshire Moors Railway Pacific Rail Express Rail strikes Railways Illustrated RMT Scotland Severn Valley Railway South Western Railway Sponsored Content steam Steam Days Swanage Railway The Railway Hub The Railway Magazine Trams TransPennine Express Transport for London West Somerset Railway Your Gallery