The Kingston Flyer approaching the terminus at Fairlight, December 2000
Locale
New Zealand
Terminus
Kingston
Commercial operations
Name
Kingston Branch
Built by
Southland Provincial Council (to 1870) Otago Provincial Council (1870–1876) Department of Public Works (1877–1878)
Original gauge
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Preserved operations
Stations
2
Length
13.69 kilometres (8.51 mi)
Preserved gauge
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Commercial history
1886
Kingston Flyer name first used for train between Gore and Kingston after nationalisation of the Waimea Plains Railway.
4 October 1937
End of regular passenger services.
1957 or 1958
End of holiday season passenger services.
21 December 1971
Re-opened to summer season vintage trains.
Closed to passengers
17 April 1979
Closed
25 November 1979
Preservation history
18 December 1982
Kingston – Fairlight re-opened to summer season vintage trains.
1 December 1992
Operation sold to New Zealand Rail Limited
2011
Operation sold to private owner, David Bryce. Services restarted after a two-year lay up.
The Kingston Flyer is a vintage steam train in the South Island of New Zealand at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu. It used 14 kilometres of preserved track that once formed a part of the Kingston Branch. Originally, Kingston Flyer was a passenger express train between Kingston, Gore, Invercargill, and less frequently, Dunedin. It was operated by the New Zealand Railways (NZR) from the 1890s to 1957. In 1971, NZR revitalised the service as a tourist venture, later leasing the locomotives and rolling stock in 1982 to a private company.[1] Since then, the Kingston Flyer has been through a number of owners, most recently being owned by the Kingston Flyer Ltd. A group of volunteers has restored the railway, rolling stock and locomotives to service.[2] In July 2021 the Kingston Flyer received resource consent to operate, initially for tour groups.[3]
^Churchman & Hurst 2001, p. 209.
^Cite error: The named reference Jan2021 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Queenstown's Kingston Flyer back after eight years". New Zealand Herald. 17 July 2021. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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