Dunedin Railways

The Dunedin Railways is an administrator of a railroad line and vacationer trains based at Dunedin Railway Station in the South Island of New Zealand. The railroad is a committee controlled exchanging association claimed together by the Dunedin City Council and the Otago Excursion Train Trust. The Otago Excursion Train Trust was framed in 1978 to work trips on the Otago Central Railway line, running its first prepare in October 1979. The administrations developed in notoriety and the Trust acknowledged by the 1980s that it had extraordinary traveler potential. New carriages were gained with the "Taieri Gorge Limited" propelling in February 1987.

In 1989 the New Zealand Railways Corporation reported the conclusion of the Otago Central railroad line past Taieri inferable from an absence of cargo activity following the fulfillment of the Clyde Dam. Dunedin City Council at that point ventured in, buying the line similar to Middlemarch in 1990, which was then rented by the Trust to run its trains. The Trust kept on working the Taieri Gorge Limited, now with its own trains, however required a further $1m to subsidize is tasks. The line past Middlemarch was lifted amid 1991, and the trackbed gave over to the Department of Conservation in 1993. It is currently the Otago Central Rail Trail, a noteworthy cycling vacation spot in the zone.