Sight-Seeing For Train Passengers
NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 8. Hostesses who will travel on the dayliglit Limited expresses that will coininence running at the Labour weekend will arrive at Taumarunui next Tuesday and stay the night there. The following morning they will make-a daylight trip over the remainder of the route and be made familiar with the points of mterest to be observed tliroughout the King Country. There are manv sights in the centre oi the North Isiand which travellers by rail have missed during the many years since the expresses ran over the route in daylight. Among the attractions on the main trunk are the world-famed spiral at Raurimu, where the track winds its way up a steep hill to the top of a tableland surrounding Tongariro National Par-k, the Makatote viaduct (the second highest in New Zeaiand), and Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and Tongariro.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 October 1949, Page 6
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