Train #7 - Great Northern

Today after a mad dash through brekkie, checkout, and the short ride to the train station we board the Great Northern for the ride to Auckland. We are in Scenic Plus, the coach where you get food and drink service throughout the 11-hour ride.

The carriages must have arrived while we were not watching. What brought them here, the locomotive is still unattached.

This decorated carriage is the Scenic Plus carriage.

The scenery on this train is different. The fields more rolling, the hills more barren.

We have a short early section along the coast. Eventually we follow a gorge for a long period.

One of the highlights of the ride is the view of Mount Ruapehu. With rain and fog we never see it.

A lounge and cafe carriage is located between our Scenic Plus carriage and the carriages of Scenic class.

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Eventually CJ makes his way to the open-air view carriage.

The open-air carriage is the place to cop pictures of the train.

Napping passengers corresponds with more boring scenery.

The view from our room.