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New Zealand's Kaikoura Coast, State Highway 1 - Train Chasing & Earthquake Repair Work

New Zealand's Kaikoura Coast, State Highway 1 - Train Chasing & Earthquake Repair Work

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New Zealand-s State Highway 1 between Christchurch and Picton joins the Kaikoura Coast near the tiny settlement of Oaro, this video starts shortly after joining the coast at Goose Bay. For much of the journey the road and rail are perched on man-made ledges cut into the cliff face where the Seaward Kaikoura Mountain Range meets the Pacific Ocean, along the way we cross braided rivers, climb over the Inland Kaikoura and Richmond Mountain Ranges before dropping into Picton where we board a ferry bound for North Island. The road and rail routes are open to traffic, but repairs are going to take many years to complete. The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake was a magnitude 7. 8 earthquake in the South Island of New Zealand that occurred two minutes after midnight on 14 November 2016. It is hard to describe the devastation, to get an idea of the aftermath
Date: 2022-11-28

Comments and reviews: 8


Hi Tim. Love your Videos of Train travel out west here in Queensland, and as an ex Kiwi, the Videos shot in NZ.
My wife and I have just returned from trip to NZ and we drove on that road on Mon 18th, really great to relive
that journey, thank's great job.

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Fantastic video - showed me a part of N. Z. we missed as we went the route inland to Nelson & Picton. Waiting to see your trip on the -Coastal Pacific-! We travelled on the -Tranz -Alpine- to Greymouth in Nov 2018 - hope you will have a video of that too!
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Hello Tim, a big part of New Zealand's gross national product is certainly spent on the maintenance, upkeep and repair of infrastructures such as roads, railways, energy and water supplies. Means this a very high tax burden in New Zealand? - Heinz
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The lead loco looked like an X Q R Loco, yes was most enjoyable, I drove the North Island back in 1988, , Looking forward to seeing how much the North Island has changed?
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53: 53 More correctly, the Tasman Sea(which is part of the Pacific Ocean) but we Aussies and our NZ cousins generally refer to it as -the Ditch-!
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Thanks for a great video Tim. I saw this for myself a few months ago. I am permanently back in New Zealand in February! Cant wait!
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Thanks for sharing Tim! Wish I had done this route back 2003! I went in land via Hanmer Springs to Nelson. Another time perhaps.
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You got both the unique Recabbed DXR locos: 8022 as the second unit on the freight, and 8007 on the Coastal Pacific.
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