Reference book to all the model train equipment produced by the American manufacturer Athearn up to 1987. 160 pages in A4 portrait format, some in colour.

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Designed for those who travel on the TranzAlpine train through the Southern Alps from Christchurch to Greymouth, and those who do the route by car or bus, this book contains general details and historic facts about each of the localities and features of interest to be seen on both railway and highway, listed in geographical order from Christchurch. Extra chapters on practicalities and stopovers round out the information, which is accompanied by 34 photos (31 in colour) and a map.

A documentary of some 120 accidents that have occured on New Zealand railways from 1946 to 1992, each illustrated with at least one photograph. The book is completed with a chapter on "near misses" and a chapter on why accidents occur and the lessons that have been learned from them. 168 pages in 260 x 190 mm format.

A major industry in the northern part of New Zealand's North Island from the 1840s to the 1910s was the felling of mighty kauri trees. This book contains approximately 80 photos of bushmen at work as well as the means used to transport the felled logs and sawn timber: horses, bullocks, flumes and bush tramways. 48 pages.

Railway Electrification in Australia and New Zealand examines the development of electric traction from overhead catenary as a motive power source in both countries. Although only small percentages of the rail networks in both countries have been electrified, the proportion of total traffic carried under wires in much higher, making it an important element in the national tramsport task, as well as in energy and enviromental politics. This book presents an illustrated survey of railway electrification on public lines in both Austr... read more

A companion volume to the extremely successful book On the TransAlpine Trail, this provides a reference guide for those travelling on the Christchurch-Picton train, the daily "TranzCoastal", to the towns, settlements and geographical features to be seen from the train over the 350 km journey. Arranged in geographical order from Christchurch are notes on the history of each settlement passed through, anecdotes and points of interest. These consist of general information for all travellers and specific details of interest to railwa... read more

One hundred years since it was opened, the North Island Main Trunk linking Wellington and Auckland remains the country's most important railway and a symbol of what railways have stood for in New Zealand's history. From the early aspirations of colonial politicians to its long and at times troubled construction; from its boom years to the later decline of passenger services; from competition with road to electrification, the North Island Main Trunk has charted the ebb and flow of New Zealand's railway history. This book brings toge... read more

This book is a lovely pictorial history of the spectacular Otago Central Railway that once stretched 236 km inland from Dunedin as far as Cromwell; now truncated to the 64 km as far as Middlemarch, the route of the highly popular Taieri Gorge Limited tourist excursion train. With the increasing popularity of both the Taieri Gorge Limited and the Otago Central Rail Trail walkway/cycleway which follows the old roadbed 150 km from Middlemarch to Clyde, this top-selling book has been updated with many fresh photos so that visitors c... read more

A veritable 'tour de force' of authentic steam railway action in colour. The late Derek Cross was a British geologist and keen steam railway enthusiast who visited New Zealand in the 1950s. Many of his black and white photos from his travels around New Zealand have been published in books and magazines, but only a small number of his colour slides have been seen before. This book contains 380 out of the approx 900 slides he took, organised geographically from north to south, and nearly all of them are hitherto unseen. All are rep... read more

After it went out of print in 2000 the publisher received at least one request a week for this book. Accordingly they decided to produce a strictly limited second printing of this comprehensive history of primitive forest railways in New Zealand as used by sawmillers to transport felled logs from the cutting sites to the sawmills and finished timber from the sawmills to wharfs and railheads. Lots of details on the equipment and technology used and operating methods, with comprehensive text and wonderful photos. 192 pages in ... read more

Since its introduction (or more exactly re-introduction) in 1971 the Kingston Flyer tourist steam train has become a national icon and a major attraction for visitors in the Otago/Southland regions. Today it runs over 14 km of track from Kingston on the shore of Lake Wakatipu to Fairlight, but originally it ran the 36 km from Kingston to Lumsden which was itself a hub for railway lines in the region, now gone. Following the format of the popular transpress books on the Johnsonville and Otago Central lines, this book provide... read more

Now representing a quarter of the present-day KiwiRail network, the South Island Main Trunk stretches 1000 km from Picton in the Marlborough Sounds to Bluff at the bottom of the South Island, along the way passing through an impressive variety of terrains: mountains, coastline (for some 100 km both at the same time) hill country, plains, and of course, cities. This book relates the history of the two sections of the railway, which were completed nearly seven decades apart, as well as features of engineering and scenic interest, th... read more

Second Edition 224 pages in 286 x 213 mm format on high quality paper, case bound with endpapers and jacket, over 300 photos. more than half of them in colour. Silver foil blocked cover and spine text. The first edition of this lavishly illustrated history of the entire New Zealand Railways network was published in 1990 and was quickly snapped up to the extent it featured for 3 months in the national top 10 bestseller list. Today second hand copies change hands at twice the original retail price. To meet the constant enq... read more

In February 1985 David McGill set off to travel New Zealand rail in guards' vans, with guards as companionable dispensers of local knowledge. The Minister of Transport Richard Prebble launched the book at Wellington Railway Station, with traditional servings of block cake, ham sandwiches and thick NZR cups of tea. Soon after his government dispensed with the services of the goods train guards. A generation later McGill introduces the leisurely journey by comparing the then Silver Fern trip from Wellington to Auckland with the pres... read more

Documenting the story of New Zealand’s railway system from the 7 km line between Christchurch and Ferrymead, opened in 1863, to the beginning of the Tranz Rail/Toll era in 1995, this program contains a wide variety of coverage taken from newsreels, publicity films and enthusiast footage of steam, diesel and electrically hauled trains in action around New Zealand through the years. Among the original promotional films featured in their entirety are "Railways of the Scenic Wonderland" f... read more