📍 22 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
📍 Address: 22 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
🌐 Website: dunedinrailways.co.nz
Cool railway station with art galleries on the second story to look at. Nice to escape the weather and see stuff inside. No need to pay for entry or anything
parked at the public carpark nxt to station. $2 /hr on weekends. Railway and thr garden is beautiful. Happen to have a wekend market at the other end. awesome!
I treated myself to a trip on The Stargazer from Dunedin to Hindon and back. The trip didn't disappoint, from arrival where staff from Tuhura Museum helped everyone get their stargazing apps up and running to getting off at the end. Precinct at the Tuhura Museum provided us with a great tasty 3 course meal. It was much appreciated by everyone from the comments I could hear from the seats around me. The lamb was magnificent and went well with my glass of wine. Once we arrived at Hindon, they divided us into 3 groups, and we attended the different workshops on offer. My favorite was looking through the telescopes provided by The Beverly Begg Observatory. It was pretty special getting a close-up look at our celestial neighbors. Much kudos to them as they had been waiting up there in the cold for us all to arrive in our warm and comfortable train. I keep thinking about the beautiful Jewellry Box constellation with all the different colours. I'm now looking at the night sky differently. Thank you to all who took part in teaching us about our skies. Finally, sated and tired, we hopped back on our warm train to travel home. But they weren't finished with us yet. On the way home,we got to listen to astrophysicist Michelle Thaller answer questions that we had put to her earlier. She covered everything from going to Mars, Aurora, and pineapple on pizza. She has a great way of putting information that sticks with you and is fun. It was a fantastic night, and if you have the opportunity to go on this trip, I couldn't recommend it to you highly enough. Just go and enjoy a great evening adventure.
Commentary was fabulous, food on the trip was great. Sadly the Dunedin side of the Taireri gorge is pines,gorse,and broom. The river has clearly been disturbed by activity up stream..it was dirty. Nothing I have seen in a NZ mountain river. Probably logging. Rail engineering and construction is amazing and the high country stop was a highlight.
We did the seasider train to Arc brewery, it is a beautiful train trip. The kids enjoyed the train ride, and it was nice to see the coast line from a different view. The train was clean, tidy and comfortable. Purchasing food/drink on board was quite expensive but that would be my only down side. Everything else was very enjoyable. .
Such an old classic retro train station, must visit for some photos.
The station is partially open as it’s under renovation. Beautiful architecture and there is the National sports museum and an art gallery located upstairs.
A building with interesting old architectural style on windows, floor tiles, wall sculpture, roof. We came here when it was under repair and there were no trains. Hopefully it will be restored soon so that everyone can fully appreciate its beauty.
This really is a lovely city, we were fortunate the weather was perfect, beautiful warm day and we really saw the railway station and surrounding areas at its best. This is named the " Most Beautiful Railway Station" in the world and it would be hard to disagree. It's a treasure. Definitely has to be on the " must see" list when visiting Dunedin. Highly recommended.
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