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Album 1: First Impressions of NZ (23 pictures) | Album 2: Rangitoto Island (27 pictures) | Album 3: A Walk around Auckland's Devonport (22 pictures) | Album 4: Puhoi and a canoe ride (28 pictures) | Album 5: Kawau Island Mansion Tour (54 pictures) | Album 6: Wine, Leigh, a cemetery and a storm (25 pictures) | Album 7: Matakohe and the Kauri Museum (44 pictures) | Album 8: Matakohe to Hongiaka (47 pictures) | Album 9: Kerikeri: History & kaleidoscopes (24 pictures) | Album 10: Bay of Islands (45 pictures) | Album 11: The Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa | Album 12: Antarctica in Auckland (16 pictures) | Album 13: "On the coast of Coromandel ......" (35 pictures) | Album 14: Orchids and Butterflies (20 pictures) | Album 15: Driving Creek Railway (23 pictures) | Album 16: Along the 309 Road (37 pictures) | Album 17: Waihi, Whakatane, not White Island (14 pictures) | Album 18: Rotorua (43 pictures) | Album 19: Plan B — Taupo (27 pictures) | Albums 20: Hamilton Gardens, then home (75 pictures) | Album 21: Paradise Garden Seats (12 pictures)

Album 15: Driving Creek Railway (23 pictures)

A potter wanted clay from up the hill a bit, so he got some rails from old mines and built a 15-inch gauge railway. That's how it all started, we are told. Now there are tunnels, bridges, zigzags, and tourists paying to be taken by train to a lookout called the "Eye-full Tower" at the top of a small mountain. And the man who did it all has gone back to being a potter. There's plenty of information on the internet about the Driving Creek Railway; that's how I discovered it.

Pottery gallery
Pottery gallery
The good ship Au-full
The good ship "Au-full"
Good advice
Good advice
Board the train here.
Board the train here.
A double-decker bridge
A double-decker bridge
View from half-way up
View from half-way up
Better view from further up
Better view from further up
Sculpture park, but the train doesn't stop
Sculpture park, but the train doesn't stop
Good use of bottles
Good use of bottles
Tunnel entrance, with sculpture
Tunnel entrance, with sculpture
A zig and a zag
A zig and a zag
Here  the driver changes the points on a zigzag
Here the driver changes the points on a zigzag
View from near the top
View from near the top
Coromandel
Coromandel
Coromandel
Coromandel
Sculpture, glimpsed briefly
Sculpture, glimpsed briefly
The train
The train
One train from another
One train from another
The waterwheel
The waterwheel
Bridge seen from above
Bridge seen from above
Train approaching the summit
Train approaching the summit
Train approaching Eye-full Tower
Train approaching Eye-full Tower
View from the Eye-full Tower
View from the Eye-full Tower