Posted Friday 9th Jan 2015 to the Otago Daily Times Dunedin.
I have been Watching the Kingston Flyers Progress since I was in School when it first was mooted to Use Heritage Steam Trains for Tourists by the NZ Railways and I have to say it looks like Kingston is just doomed to fail at every attempt to make this Idea Work
The Best chance it had was when the then Fiordland Travel (aka Real Journeys) had a joint venture trip with the TSS Earnslaw
but they gave up on it. After that it just lost steam with blow after Blow I did suggest to the Late Les Hutchins how owned Real Journeys that they could have used there second Steam Ship the SS Tawera from Te Anau (similar to the old Ben Lomond) as a stand in for the Earnslaw and buy into the Flyer operation to make Kingston a Heritage Steam Town again... But it too risky Financially even for the Adventurist Les who was not physically well at the time.
And as Les would say his Board would see it as a Hare Brained Scheme anyway.
Today there are People with an eye on getting the Flyer one group in Invercargill want to put her back on the Rails to Bluff
As she was in the late 1970s when the Rails to Kingston got ripped out for scrap.
If they do that I would like to see the Mandeville Kingston Flyer People bring back their train to Kingston.
If you think about it, it would be rude not to .
Personally I think there is a curse on the Train, History says bad luck follows it. Even Peter Jackson & Sam Neil have abandoned their Patron positions, now Russell Glendinning. She really is an Orphan Now.
I have been Watching the Kingston Flyers Progress since I was in School when it first was mooted to Use Heritage Steam Trains for Tourists by the NZ Railways and I have to say it looks like Kingston is just doomed to fail at every attempt to make this Idea Work
The Best chance it had was when the then Fiordland Travel (aka Real Journeys) had a joint venture trip with the TSS Earnslaw
but they gave up on it. After that it just lost steam with blow after Blow I did suggest to the Late Les Hutchins how owned Real Journeys that they could have used there second Steam Ship the SS Tawera from Te Anau (similar to the old Ben Lomond) as a stand in for the Earnslaw and buy into the Flyer operation to make Kingston a Heritage Steam Town again... But it too risky Financially even for the Adventurist Les who was not physically well at the time.
And as Les would say his Board would see it as a Hare Brained Scheme anyway.
Today there are People with an eye on getting the Flyer one group in Invercargill want to put her back on the Rails to Bluff
As she was in the late 1970s when the Rails to Kingston got ripped out for scrap.
If they do that I would like to see the Mandeville Kingston Flyer People bring back their train to Kingston.
If you think about it, it would be rude not to .
Personally I think there is a curse on the Train, History says bad luck follows it. Even Peter Jackson & Sam Neil have abandoned their Patron positions, now Russell Glendinning. She really is an Orphan Now.
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