Scenic route
Northern Explorer
Auckland → Wellington · New Zealand
Northern Explorer in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 681 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 11 h
- Average speed
- 62 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- KiwiRail
- Train
- AK panorama cars
- Countries
- New Zealand
- In service since
- 1908
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Volcano country: the Raurimu Spiral climbs to Tongariro’s plateau, Ruapehu steaming beyond the glass.
How this line was checked
- The 668 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 9594133 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 77 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 25 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: KiwiRail — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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