The museum runs an excursion train along this route using their rolling stock.
The first excursion train arrived with battlefield visitors on July 5.
The photograph shows the excursion train and the tenant's vegetable garden.
A number were preserved and some of these continued to operate on special excursion trains.
The next day a special excursion train ran from Auckland.
The first excursion train was run later that year.
Both of these units were popular with railtours and excursion trains.
You know this was the night the excursion train left.
It is occasionally used on both excursion trains and in revenue freight service.
Current plans are for the locomotive to pull the excursion train about once a month.
