Opinion: Hawke’s Bay’s last passenger train service, the Bay Express, stopped running in 2001. This year the Save Our Trains group have been holding meetings i
I’m hesitant about this, but it would be easy to let it be the elephant in the room. I wrote the main text back in 2019 and the whole gist of the project was for it to be a general book that would appear in bookshops, not just via the model trade and o…
Palmerston North’s new bus services, designed to provide faster, more direct and frequent trips for more people, will leave some existing passengers behind. Age
‘Check the ULEZ compliance.’ This was a new pre-show trip question. Easy enough, you just punch your reg’ number in to the website and you get a yes or no. Interestingly the exit onto the A3 post show was no easier and there seemed to be no drop in tra…
Millions of dollars and a lot of expensive time is being invested in making bus journeys through Auckland faster and with more reliable travel times. Bus prior
One of the biggest problems with Auckland Transport’s revamp of bus services out west, is that it’s hard to forget that $100 million was spent upgrading the pri
London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866 (GOLD)As the weather has turned colder and outside tasks become more difficult, the Thompson coach, usefully located inside the shed, has been able to see a little more progress. The recently…
One of the trickier tasks I faced with transforming the setting of my inner-Melbourne HO Scale shelf layout to the NSW North Coast, was removing the tram tracks that once ran down the middle of the Philden Street overpass. They were anchored down to th…
One of Auckland's biggest completed public transport projects in recent years gets its first big test on Monday, with the start of Western Express services
