At the very end of the Stillwater - Ngakawau line you will find the Solid Energy coal loading facility, located on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Coal is mined at the Stockton mine ... (more)

DXC 5108 and 5293 make their way towards Ngakawau for another load of export coal which will then be exported through the port of Lyttelton.

DXC 5229 leads classmate 5310 across the Taramakau River at Jacksons with the outbound 'Tranz Alpine' service from Christchurch to Greymouth. Taken with a drone.

On a cool spring morning train 850 with DXC 5425 and 5391 enter Springfield headed to Christchurch with a loaded train of export coal. Just a day earlier there was a fresh dump of snow all over th... (more)

With 6 DXC class locomotives on the front, loaded coal train 850 gets away from Otira. The extra 4 locomotives on the head are there to assist in getting the train through the steep Otira tunnel. ... (more)

Train 850 led by DXC 5172 and 5293 get away from Arthurs Pass on their way to Christchurch with a loaded coal train. Crossing over Rough Creek on a typical wet and miserable day in the Southern Al... (more)

Train 849 races over Lake Brunner Rd on its way to Ngakawau with 30 empty coal cars.

Empty coal train 849 enters the loop at Moana to allow the Tranz Alpine to pass on the main.

Empty coal train 849 makes its way west toward Ngakawau for another load of coal through the very scenic Midland Line. It wont be long before this area is covered in snow as winter appraoches

Another empty coal train is arriving into Arthurs Pass to get ready to travel through the Otira tunnel. Here 3 more DXC's will couple onto the front of the train to help the train with the grade i... (more)

With the loaded ‘coalie’ stretched around Otira’s station the five big GE DXCs with 15.000 horsepower in total create ‘thunder in the mountains’ as they get Train number 844 under way o... (more)

With five DXC’s on the front the three bankers and two train locomotives roll Train NO 844 over the Rolleston River bridge on the approach to the west portal of the Otira Tunnel on their way t... (more)

The Otira bankers wait next to the re-fueling station high in the Otira yards as NO 829, a westbound freight train, descends the hill into Otira on its way to Refton.

A very grubby KiwiRail 5517 is the lead locomotive on the helper set about to take a train through the 8km Otira Tunnel. The locomotive is still in the old Tranz Rail colour scheme.

Coal motor DXC 5460, on extended loan to the lower North Island freight pool leads freshly repainted DCP 4818 on a very late running 526 down the beautiful Kaihuahua valley towards the equally imp... (more)