TRAVEL
Taieri Gorge
THE IMPROBABLE RAILWAY LINE By Vern Walker
YOU
could say that railway lines and the locomotives that ride upon them are in my genes. As a youngster, the rail trip from Invercargill to Bluff was a summer highlight. When the pungent smells of the Ocean 8
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issue 33 • summer 2021-22
Beach Freezing Works heralded the arrival of our family, at Bluff. Since then, I have rumbled around Europe in the company of my orange-covered Thomas Cook timetable. A day trip to the Roof of Europe, at Jungfraujoch,
Switzerland, where light aircraft can be spotted flying below you! I have blurred past rural Japan on the Shinkansen. I have ridden on the high Pikes Peak Cog Railway, Colorado, where you gasp for oxygen. I have travelled on the
