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Sawyers Bay Mural
A signals building in Sawyers Bay, Otago shows a cruise ship entering Port Chalmers on one side and the Taieri Gorge Railway train on the other. The murals, painted by Ange Spears, are part of a drive to reduce graffiti and deter trespassers from the rail corridor.
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Green Lady Mural
A mural in Kingsland, Auckland of the popular ‘The Chinese Girl’ or ‘Green Lady’ by Vladimir Trechikoff has been reproduced with Kiwi flair by Tauranga artist Owen Dippie. The mural is part of a drive to reduce graffiti and deter trespassers from the rail corridor.
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Bruce McLaren Mural
A mural in west Auckland of race car driver Bruce McLaren takes pride of place overlooking the rail corridor alongside the road that bears his name in Henderson. The mural, painted by Tauranga artist Owen Dippie, is part of a drive to reduce graffiti and deter trespassers from the rail corridor.
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LNER A4 Pacific Mural
A mural of a LNER A4 Pacific locomotive is adorned on Br28 on the Wairarapa Line in Pomare, north of Wellington. The mural commissioned by Hutt City Council and KiwiRail was painted by Whanganui-based artist Dan Mills, and is part of a drive to reduce graffiti and deter trespassers from the rail corridor.
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Train Brain
Train Brain looks both ways – looks and listens for trains – crosses at the crossing – focuses around trains – is aware of overhead wires.
Use Your Train Brain.
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Freeze Brain
Freeze Brain is frozen into the straight-ahead position, not thinking to look left and right at a proper crossing.
Always look for trains and obey the warning signs.
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Beats Brain
Beats Brain is totally engaged in the funky beats and in the zone. Beats Brain is grooving so much it doesn’t hear or see the train.
Look, Listen and Live!
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Dur Brain
Dur Brain is a baffling condition that defies common sense, wandering away from the safety of the railway crossing and cutting across the tracks where it shouldn’t – Dur!
Trespassing is illegal.
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Txt Brain
Txt Brain doesn’t mix with trains. So infatuated with its device that it doesn’t focus on where it is or what it is doing.
Look, Listen and Live!
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Fly Brain
Only a Fly Brain would fly a kite close to the electric overhead wires.
No second chances. Stay Clear.
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Train Crash Simulation
In 2009 KiwiRail simulated a train and car collision. The footage is used in rail safety campaigns throughout New Zealand.
Lose a minute, not your life.
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YJ Ballast Wagon
Designed and built in New Zealand it carries, distributes and spreads ballast (crushed rock) for railway construction and maintenance activities.
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70s rail freight advert(Rolling rolling rolling, rolling rolling rolling) rail freightRolling rolling rolling, keep these wheels a rollingRide across the country rail freightMuscles big and bulging, we’ll keep these freight cars rollingWe’ll keep on rolling rail freightFrom shore to shore, from door to doorBig or small we’ll take ‘em allOur aim in life is to get this freight train through – h’yahPut ‘em up, move ‘em on, put ‘em on, load ‘em up, Put ‘em up, move ‘em on, rail freightGet ‘em there, get ‘em here, get ‘em here, get ‘em thereMove ‘em on, move ‘em on rail freight(rolling rolling rolling, rolling rolling rolling) rail freight(rolling rolling rolling, rolling rolling rolling) rail freight.
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Cruising on the Interislander...
Written by DDB Agency and performed by The Warratahs, this song became the centrepiece of an advertising campaign in the early 1990s for Interislander, catching the carefree relaxing experience of travelling on board its ferries. Since been recorded by teenager Moana Leota giving a fresh interpretation of the original.
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Take a break, take a train
In 2013 KiwiRail Scenic released a TV commercial ‘Take a break. Take a train’ featuring footage of the TranzAlpine. An aria from Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers opera (1863) named ‘Au fond du temple saint’ (In the Depths of the Temple) is performed by cousins Moses MacKay (baritone) and Pene Pati (tenor).
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