The AK class carriage is a class of cars made by Dunedin’s Hillside Workshops for KiwiRail’s long-distance passenger service, The Great Journeys of New Zealand.
The three-foot, six-inch rail gauge likely originated for horse-drawn wagonways. It is called the Colonial Gauge in New Zealand, the Cape Gauge in South Africa, the Blekinge Gauge in Sweden, and kyōki in Japan.
The Otago Central Railway, also known as the Otago Central Branch Railway and now referred to as the Taieri Gorge Railway, was a secondary railway line in Central Otago, located on the South Island of New Zealand.
The Tangiwai train disaster, which occurred at about 10:21 p.m. on December 24, 1953, near Tangiwai on the North Island, is New Zealand’s worst rail accident.
