Shantytown on the West Coast has introduced the Footplate Experience, in which visitors can ride in the cab of a restored steam train. The trains follow an original sawmill tram track through native bush to an area worked by miners in the 1860s gold rush. The return journey stops at
Steaming down the line
By Heather Ramsay
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