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Off the Rails - Rail Rider (Episode Nine)
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2004
Marcus Lush goes "right up the guts" of the North Island from Wairarapa to Gisborne, in this episode of his award-winning romance with New Zealand's railways. He meets railcar restorers and recounts the murders by rail porter Rowland Edwards in 1884. Particular praise is reserved for the "spectacular and beautiful" Napier to Gisborne line (now mothballed) with its viaducts at Mohaka and Kopuawhara. The latter is on the site of a flash flood that killed 21 workers in 1938; it inspires an idiosyncratic Lush demonstration of Aotearoa's then 10 worst disasters.
Everyone says it’s one of the most scenic, most beautiful, most spectacular tracks in the New Zealand rail system.– Marcus Lush on the Napier to Gisborne line
Key Cast & Crew
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Produced by
Jam TV
Source
Jam TV
Acknowledgements
Made with funding from NZ On Air.
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