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. It has relatively recently
gotten through to Waikanae and perhaps will reach Levin.
