Culverden Express information

The Culverden Express was a passenger train operated by the New Zealand Railways Department between Christchurch and Culverden. It ran from 1886 until...

Culverden is a small town in the northern Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It lies at the centre of the Amuri Plain. Culverden has traditionally...

Zealand Christchurch - Picton 1988 present Culverden Express New Zealand Railways Department Christchurch - Culverden (later Parnassus) 1886 1945? Daylight...

Culverden Express. As of the mid-1920s, the Culverden Express began to terminate at the coastal Parnassus terminus rather than the inland Culverden terminus...

Death's Corner a sharp curve near Sefton, the Christchurch-Culverden Express from Culverden had two front loco bogie wheels leave the rails on the incline...

and replaced. Early long-distance services included the Culverden Express; the South Express, a Christchurch – Invercargill service inaugurated following...

in 1886 and plays in the Southern Counties East Football League at the Culverden Stadium, and has a history that stretches back to 1886. The team were...

lines. The Culverden Express began not long after the line was opened and was the most important train in North Canterbury at the time. The express was supplemented...

Branch extension before Otago Central Railway route chosen. Culverden – Reefton line Culverden to Tophouse, with branches from there to Nelson and Blenheim...

began on an inland route, with Waipara linked to Culverden in 1886. Although the line to Culverden was treated as the mainline for decades, it eventually...

DB's most picturesque house. St. Mary's Church, Riverhead, Kent (1831) Culverden House, Tunbridge Wells, Kent (1830), demolished to make way for the Kent...

locomotive classes. NZR's first bus operation began on 1 October 1907, between Culverden on the Waiau Branch and Waiau Ferry in Canterbury. By the 1920s NZR was...