A toddler has survived a shocking 25 metre plunge from a moving carriage on a popular scenic mountain railway line in the Coromandel Peninsula.
Emergency services were called to Driving Creek Railway, a tourist hotspot that attracts visitors from all over the world, earlier today.
A Westpac helicopter crewman said the boy fell from a carriage travelling over the second-storey of the mountainous circuit's double decker bridge.
The child was taken to Auckland's Starship Hospital in a serious but stable condition.
The Driving Creek Railway wends its way through a mountain track at the back of Thames and includes spirals, tunnels and several large viaducts.
