Rail shame as Nelson left without trains despite feisty protest
The Kiwi Station rail protest in 1955. Credit: Nelson Provincial Museum, Geoffrey C Wood Collection. An Auckland University report out earlier this month which concluded that New Zealand’s roading system has added to our psychological distress makes for sobering reading. Nelson’s ongoing transport woes and debate have been caused of course by the past actions of short-sighted politicians who became hell-bent on dismantling perfectly good infrastructure which now has to patched over by future generations. I’m talking here about Nelson Railway, which used to be one of the best little ...
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