Lynch's Creek, Rinadeena, Dubbil Barril

After Lynch's Creek we continued on the railway, this time assisted driven by a rack and pinion system, used to drive the engine up the unusually steep inclines. The guide stated most trains struggle to traverse inclines any more than 40:1 ratio (incline gradient 40m length to 1 m elevation) however this one we were on are the 2 steepest railways in the southern hemisphere. From Lynch's Creek to Rinadeena it is 20:1 incline, but from Dubbil Barril to Rinadeena (on the way back) it is 16: 1 incline. The train uses 3000 litres of water each time it does a climb and has to fill up at several points along the railway.
Once at Dubbil Barril we got to watch the train turned around on a manual turntable and did a rainforest walk to check our part of the King River Gorge, before getting back on the train and heading back to Queenstown, arriving back in Queenstown just after 2pm. Czytaj więcej