We woke up to a cold wet morning, a far cry from the excellent weather we have enjoyed so far. The land around here could certainly do with the rain, it's very dry and yellow, but I think it would need days of rain to help. Just a few domestic duties in and around the van this morning until we went off to ride the Weka Pass Railway to Glenmark Station about 13 km away. The Railway line to Waikari was constructed in the1980's and had it's first timetabled service from Christchurch in 1982 but was never officially "opened" by the government . Neither was the request for a station at Waikari. This was finally rectified in 2002 when the line was finally "opened".
The Weka Pass railway has been operated since 1983 by an enthusiastic band of volunteers. It operates with an A428 steam engine built in 1909 or a DG class diesel electric from the1950's and travels through some spectacular limestone formations one of the more notable being "frog rock".
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