The Auckland Regional Transport Authority is offering about 440 seats on two return trains from its suburban fleet to mourners for a special return fare of $20, leaving for the Waikato between 7.40am and 8am.
Auckland Regional Council chairman Mike Lee, who requested the services, said last night the idea was to recover only "gas money" for such a special occasion.
Those trains will stop at a normally disused platform at Ngaruawahia for passengers to be carried back north to Taupiri by buses.
National rail operator Toll is also arranging a limited service train with the Tainui tribal federation to carry about 300 elderly and disabled mourners from Ngaruawahia to Taupiri, where the track runs along the foot of Dame Te Ata's burial mountain.
But they will have to stay on board to watch her body being carried from a waka and across SH1 and the railway line to the mountain, as there are no facilities for passengers to get off the train.
The Auckland Regional Transport Authority is offering about 440 seats on two return trains from its suburban fleet to mourners for a special return fare of $20, leaving for the Waikato between 7.40am and 8am.
Auckland Regional Council chairman Mike Lee, who requested the services, said last night the idea was to recover only "gas money" for such a special occasion.
Those trains will stop at a normally disused platform at Ngaruawahia for passengers to be carried back north to Taupiri by buses.
National rail operator Toll is also arranging a limited service train with the Tainui tribal federation to carry about 300 elderly and disabled mourners from Ngaruawahia to Taupiri, where the track runs along the foot of Dame Te Ata's burial mountain.
But they will have to stay on board to watch her body being carried from a waka and across SH1 and the railway line to the mountain, as there are no facilities for passengers to get off the train.
The Auckland Regional Transport Authority is offering about 440 seats on two return trains from its suburban fleet to mourners for a special return fare of $20, leaving for the Waikato between 7.40am and 8am.
Auckland Regional Council chairman Mike Lee, who requested the services, said last night the idea was to recover only "gas money" for such a special occasion.
Those trains will stop at a normally disused platform at Ngaruawahia for passengers to be carried back north to Taupiri by buses.
National rail operator Toll is also arranging a limited service train with the Tainui tribal federation to carry about 300 elderly and disabled mourners from Ngaruawahia to Taupiri, where the track runs along the foot of Dame Te Ata's burial mountain.
But they will have to stay on board to watch her body being carried from a waka and across SH1 and the railway line to the mountain, as there are no facilities for passengers to get off the train.
The main trunk railway is sandwiched between the burial ground , state highway one and the Waikato river at this point . Traffic will be absoutely chaos , so the trains are a good idea .
Auckland Regional Council chairman Mike Lee, who requested the services, said last night the idea was to recover only "gas money" for such a special occasion.
Those trains will stop at a normally disused platform at Ngaruawahia for passengers to be carried back north to Taupiri by buses.
National rail operator Toll is also arranging a limited service train with the Tainui tribal federation to carry about 300 elderly and disabled mourners from Ngaruawahia to Taupiri, where the track runs along the foot of Dame Te Ata's burial mountain.
But they will have to stay on board to watch her body being carried from a waka and across SH1 and the railway line to the mountain, as there are no facilities for passengers to get off the train.
The Auckland Regional Transport Authority is offering about 440 seats on two return trains from its suburban fleet to mourners for a special return fare of $20, leaving for the Waikato between 7.40am and 8am.
Auckland Regional Council chairman Mike Lee, who requested the services, said last night the idea was to recover only "gas money" for such a special occasion.
Those trains will stop at a normally disused platform at Ngaruawahia for passengers to be carried back north to Taupiri by buses.
National rail operator Toll is also arranging a limited service train with the Tainui tribal federation to carry about 300 elderly and disabled mourners from Ngaruawahia to Taupiri, where the track runs along the foot of Dame Te Ata's burial mountain.
But they will have to stay on board to watch her body being carried from a waka and across SH1 and the railway line to the mountain, as there are no facilities for passengers to get off the train.
The Auckland Regional Transport Authority is offering about 440 seats on two return trains from its suburban fleet to mourners for a special return fare of $20, leaving for the Waikato between 7.40am and 8am.
Auckland Regional Council chairman Mike Lee, who requested the services, said last night the idea was to recover only "gas money" for such a special occasion.
Those trains will stop at a normally disused platform at Ngaruawahia for passengers to be carried back north to Taupiri by buses.
National rail operator Toll is also arranging a limited service train with the Tainui tribal federation to carry about 300 elderly and disabled mourners from Ngaruawahia to Taupiri, where the track runs along the foot of Dame Te Ata's burial mountain.
But they will have to stay on board to watch her body being carried from a waka and across SH1 and the railway line to the mountain, as there are no facilities for passengers to get off the train.
The main trunk railway is sandwiched between the burial ground , state highway one and the Waikato river at this point . Traffic will be absoutely chaos , so the trains are a good idea .
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