{"id":1112,"date":"2011-06-08T21:58:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T20:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/tranzalpine-christchurh-to-greymouth\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T09:37:38","slug":"tranzalpine-christchurh-to-greymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/tranzalpine-christchurh-to-greymouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tranzalpine, Christchurh to Greymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tranzalpine,<\/a>
Tranzalpine, Christchurh to Greymouth<\/a>, a photo by Steph Jennings<\/a> on Flickr.<\/span><\/div>\n

The Transalpine Trip is a 233.8 km train journey from Christchurch on the east coast to Greymouth on the west coast on New Zealand passing through some of the most amazing scenery I’ve ever encountered.<\/p>\n

Travelling first across the Canterbury plains then into the Southern Alps, passing via Arthur’s Pass and in several places crossing the waimakariri river, there are 19 tunnels, the longest one taking 20 minutes to pass through and 4 viaducts, the highest being the Staircase standing at 73 metres. <\/p>\n

The journey took 4.5hours one way but with a stunning open air carriage for you to take pictures from there was no way you could tire of the scenery.<\/p>\n

We travelled from Christchurch to Greymouth and back again in one day with only an hours stop on the west coast, It was long day with a round trip of 467.6km but worth every minute!<\/p>\n

The only thing that could have made it any more scenic would have been if these mountains we snow capped.<\/p>\n

www.tranzscenic.co.nz\/services\/tranzalpine.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tranzalpine, Christchurh to Greymouth, a photo by Steph Jennings on Flickr. The Transalpine Trip is a 233.8 km train journey from Christchurch on the east coast to Greymouth on the west coast on New Zealand passing through some of the most amazing scenery I’ve ever encountered. Travelling first across the Canterbury plains then into the … Continue reading Tranzalpine, Christchurh to Greymouth<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[103,1],"tags":[343,377,372,366,371,344,354,342,562,353,369,375,370,376,373,374],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-wbiagw","tag-nzpicoftheday","tag-journey","tag-lake","tag-landscape","tag-mountain","tag-new-zealand","tag-nz","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-river","tag-southern-alps","tag-train","tag-tranzalpine","tag-trip","tag-waimakariri","tag-waimakariri-river"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-hW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1032,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/norwest-arch-moncks-bay-new-zealand\/","url_meta":{"origin":1112,"position":0},"title":"Nor’west arch, Moncks Bay, New Zealand","date":"May 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Nor'west arch, Moncks Bay, New Zealand, a photo by Steph Jennings on Flickr. 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