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Bonnie Harrison

Long Read: The new Golden Age of rail

A train journey emits approximately one-sixth of the greenhouse gases of an equivalent plane trip. A six-carriage electric train takes an estimated 625 cars off the road. Photo: Lynn Grieveson

This is The Detail's Long Read  one in-depth story read by us every weekend.

This week, it's 'Back on track: The new Golden Age of rail', written and read here by North & South magazine's junior staff writer Theo Macdonald.

You can read the full story in the August issue, or on the North & South website.

Long-distance rail travel is in for a revival in New Zealand — eventually. And you don’t have to be a nostalgia buff, trainspotter or climate-action protester to see why. 

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