{"id":4783,"date":"2011-04-04T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2011-04-04T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T02:36:00","slug":"struth-derailed-flyer-up-for-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/04\/struth-derailed-flyer-up-for-grabs\/","title":{"rendered":"STRUTH! Derailed Flyer up for grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-s2jU07RCjPM\/TZkumjYHaCI\/AAAAAAAANxY\/WuhR3q_KERM\/s1600\/Train%2BNew%2BZealand%2BKingston%2BFlyer-769668.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-s2jU07RCjPM\/TZkumjYHaCI\/AAAAAAAANxY\/WuhR3q_KERM\/s320\/Train%2BNew%2BZealand%2BKingston%2BFlyer-769668.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591551652223477794\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that if you&#8217;ve always wanted your own steam train, there&#8217;s one for sale in New Zealand complete with steam engine, two passenger carriages, a kitchen van, 14km of track, two stations, and associated nostalgic bits and pieces.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The historic Kingston Flyer began services from Kingston near Dunedin on New Zealand&#8217;s South Island in the 1890s, operating regular passenger services between Kingston and Gore, Invercargill and Dunedin until 1937, with peak-season-only holiday services continuing until 1957 when these also ceased.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>It lay idle until 1971 when the peak season services recommenced and survived until 1979; they were again suspended in that year, re-commencing yet again in 1982 for tourists on the now-shortened line from Kingston to Fairlight 14km away.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>It was finally closed for good in August 2009 with its owners, Kingston Acquistions going into receivership with debts of NZ$4.7m.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>And even though it&#8217;s not chugged a centimetre since then, New Zealand&#8217;s once most-famous steam train still attracts hundreds of train buffs, with at least three road coaches a day of tourists pulling up to see the old train and its historic buildings at Kingston.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>If you&#8217;re interested in your very own steam train to take mates on holidays in New Zealand, offers close on April 26; check it out on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingstonacquistions.co.nz\">www.kingstonacquistions.co.nz<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that if you&#8217;ve always wanted your own steam train, there&#8217;s one for sale in New Zealand complete with steam engine, two passenger carriages, a kitchen van, 14km of track, two stations, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}