From Welllington to Wakatipu and north to Aukland too
Ray Schofield
- Region:
- London
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Unknown
- Category:
- Travel
- Updated:
- 30th December 2025
- Tagged:
This is a c.1hour talk in Ray's railways of the colonies series featuring New Zealand as one of Britian's most prominent of the former colonial counties. A highly scenic journey behind steam locomotives on both north and south islands including traversing Arthur's Pass and, with the complete train crossing the turbulent Cook Straight between the islands. As well as the main line, no less than 10 heritage steam operations are included along with some most unusual variants of the traditional Stephensonian locomotive.
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Retired Chartered Engineer who has undertaken tour management for UK worldwide rail travel company. Widely travelled, much of which is independent, around the 5 continents of the world plus Aus and NZ. Visited parts that most others haven’t e.g., North Korea, Pakistan, Eritrea, Paraguay, Syria .......
Talks are generally associated with trains (mostly nostalgic steam) the railways themselves and associated historical aspects. Most talks were planned for railway interest groups but can be tailored to audience, whether knowledgeable on rail subjects or not and using both Ray's own photo material and other sourced images.
Presentations will be in digital format and in Power Point format.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Ray Schofield
- Action & Articulation - the story of articulated steam locomotives
- North of the bordr from the Tweed to Thurso
- The Great Northern Railway, King's Cross Station & Sir Nigel Gresley
- The Great Central Railway - Rapid Travel in Luxury
- From Carlisle to Kittybrewster (that's in Aberdeen)
- North of the Border: From Canal to Craigellachie
- GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY – ‘’rarely other than idiosyncratic’’
- Calgary to Kamloops and more by rail
- Ray's book - Locomotive Sheds of the Great Central Railway and the CLC
- The NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY from the Stockton & Darlington Rly to the East Coast Main Line
- 1847 and the first railway route to Scotland
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