A Train for Christmas

Directed by David Sims, A Train For Christmas follows the Kingston Flyer as it chugs through the farmland of Southland from Lumsden to Kingston, where on the shores of Lake Wakatipu it meets with the steamer TSS Earnslaw. With the driver as narrator, this poetic, and sometimes fantastical (the train talks at one point) celebration of steam transportation evokes a bygone era when the train “would stop at every crossing, hedge and house.” The steam train is cast as an integral part of a vast landscape and the communities that it travels through.

Stay off the rails, no matter what.

– The Steam Locomotive

Key Cast & Crew

David Sims

Writer, Director

Grant Tilly

Narrator

Tony Baker

Composer

David H Fowler

Producer

Brian Cross

Camera

Bruce Dunn

Camera