All Aboard

Independent travel writer takes a stunning tour of NZ by train. “[If] you want to experience your visual thrills in comfort and without the threat of sea-sickness, you can simply let the NZ’s trains take the strain … The trains in NZ are very special. In a sense they are as endangered as some species of whale, and the future of passenger services is uncertain … [But] they are getting better known and there are even signs that a rail renaissance is on the way.”