Tranzalpine

My mum is 85 and on her bucket list is the transalpine train trip so for her christmas present (all be it a tad late) we are taking her on the train. we booked the trip the day before the Christchurch earthquake so we have been waiting to see if we were ...

... , through Arthur's Pass National Park dissecting the Southern Alps and on to Christchurch. Once in Christchurch we were to board the TranzAlpine train the following day for a return day trip back across the Southern Alps to Greymouth. That was the plan ...

The journey to Greymouth from Christchurch on the TranzAlpine most definately beats the northern line and Thameslink scenery I can tell you!!! The TranzAlpine is world renowned as 'The Great New Zealand Rail Adventure'. One minute you are surrounded by ...

... and pulling things in a certain order to get to food, and will work together to achieve a certain objective   The TranzAlpine Express is a passenger train operated by Tranz Scenic in the South Island of New Zealand. This trip is often regarded ...

... the glacier that contradicted every single thing we had heard the day previous) to Greymouth where we would be catching the TranzAlpine train to Christchurch via Arthurs Pass.  Dubbed as one of the world's greatest train journeys we knew that we ...

... say there are 60 million sheep in New Zealand, although I’m a little sceptical as to how they counted them all! The TranzAlpine train journey goes from Christchurch on the east coast of the south island, to Greymouth on the west coast. We passed ...

So, we took the Tranzalpine Train to Christchurch, which took a route across New Zealand through Arthur's Pass. It is ranked as one of the top six train journeys in the world and it definitely didn't disapppoint! Although, I would recommend travelling on ...

We then travelled onto Greymouth which is where I left the Swedish girls. I got the Tranzalpine train back to Christchurch to meet Donna and Scott. The train journey was good - supposed to be one of the best in the ...

... where the airbed went down christchurch dawned overcast and drizzly but we were up and ready to head off the greymouth on the tranzalpine. We had breakfast cooked for us, hash browns, scrambled egg, bacon and toast, very yummy and thanks alan. We had to ...

We were up early for the TranzAlpine train journey from Christchurch in the east to Greymouth in the west. The scenery was beautiful and changed dramatically from the flat and grassy Canterbury Plains, to rocky grey hills over Arthur's Pass and then ...