KiwiRail

The website of New Zealand’s government-owned rail and ferry operator.

Living Heritage – Johnsonville railway

This exhibition by Raroa Intermediate school pupils provides an interesting account of the Johnsonville railway.

Locomotives in New Zealand

A Wikipedia page on New Zealand locomotives.

New Zealand Historic Places Trust – register

The Historic Places Trust’s online register contains information on many New Zealand railway stations, tunnels, viaducts and other historic structures.

NZHistory.net.nz

The NZHistory site includes features on the North Island main trunk line, rail tourism, railway stations, railway songs and the Tangiwai railway disaster.

New Zealand Locomotives

Photos of locomotives, on the TrainWeb site.

Rail New Zealand

Information about and bookings for New Zealand trains.

Atkinson, Neill. Trainland: how railways made New Zealand. Auckland: Random House, 2007.

Bromby, Robin. Rails that built a nation: an encyclopedia of New Zealand railways. Wellington: Grantham House, 2003.

Churchman, Geoffrey, and Tony Hurst. The railways of New Zealand: a journey through history. Wellington: Transpress, 2001.

Leitch, David, and Bob Stott. New Zealand railways: the first 125 years. Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1988.

McQueen, Euan. Rails in the hinterland: New Zealand’s vanishing railway landscape. Wellington: Grantham House, 2005.

Pierre, Bill. North Island main trunk: an illustrated history. Wellington: Reed, 1981.