Scenic route
Coastal Pacific
Picton → Christchurch · New Zealand
- Distance
- 348 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h 30 min
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- KiwiRail
- Train
- Great Journeys scenic day train
- Countries
- New Zealand
- In service since
- 1945
Pinched between the Kaikōura ranges and Pacific surf past fur-seal colonies, on a line the 2016 quake lifted bodily out of the sea.
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