Canterbury Stories


TranzAlpine journey through Canterbury and Westcoast

We woke up early our second day in Christchurch to go to the train station. The TranzAlpine was departing at 8:15am, westbound across the South Island. It’s a 4 ½ hour journey. It passes through the Canterbury Plains and farmland, and then through the gorges and river valleys of the Waimakariri River before is starts to climb into the Southern Alps (...