Book review: Wellington's Railways: Colonial Steam to Matangi, by David Parsons
David Parsons. Wellington’s Railways: Colonial Steam to Matangi. 2010.
This book is certainly not lacking in detail. It covers the early development of Wellington region rail (different parts of New Zealand, and I guess many other countries, were quite isolated 150 years ago) until 1920; refinements from 1920 to 1970; and the changes from 1970 to 2010. Wellington rail did manage to mostly hang on through the global Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal era.
Posted by Patrick Lam on Sunday, October 8, 2023
