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Many of us will have been to work and back in them daily in the last three decades plus, or perhaps been woken by the fairly audible and distinctive sound of one growling up a hill - the sound of the Leyland Leopard urban bus plying the Dunedin streets.

Passengers on the cruise ship Arcadia and a regular scheduled Taieri Gorge Limited service had a bonus bit of interest in the form of a Helicopters Otago Bell JetRanger following both trains on Saturday.

When Vulcan railcar RM56 left Alexandra on ANZAC Day 1976, providing the final day of railcar service on the Central Otago Railway, no one would know that 3 decades, 3 years and almost 6 months later the very same Vulcan railcar would grace the tracks again, but it did.