Blenheim Riverside Railway

22/11/2025

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360888254/full-steam-ahead-blenheim-riverside-railway-societys-40th

The public is invited to witness the “largest collection of two-foot gauge locomotives and carriages ever seen in New Zealand”.

29/06/2025

The train today is canceled due to the river level being over the tracks and our trains not making very good submarines.

03/06/2024

Blenheim Riverside Railway won an award at the annual FRONZ (Federation of Rail Organisations of NZ) for the restoration of our restoration of our Price built Da8 “Doug”!

04/02/2024

Riverside railway is running tomorrow (Tuesday 6th) for Brayshaw Park Heritage Day.

Trains to Beaver Station near central Blenheim leave Brayshaw park every 30 minutes from 10.30am.

The railcar departs every 30 minutes starting at 10.45 to Omaka and back.

Come check out all the interesting things going on and Brayshaw Park Heritage day.

26/12/2023

We have just updated our running days for January 2024.

Diesel Locomotive Running Days:
1st, 4th, 10th, 14th, 17th, 21st and 28th January

Steam Locomotive Running Days:
7th of January and 4th of Febuary

17/06/2023

No passenger train running today due to the weather and surface flooding.
There are 5 days of School Holiday running on July 2nd (steam), 5, 9, 12 and 16.

21/03/2023

Due to flooding of a section of our track, beyond our control, our passenger trips to BEAVER STATION will instead stop at, and return from FULTON STATION, until the river can be cleared.

Aqua cycling might be the latest thing in downtown Blenheim but it is not recommended.

Various environmental factors have combined which means we will have to put up with a flooded boardwalk at the amphitheatre for a bit longer yet.

The wet summer on top of two major storms over the last two years has meant increased siltation - or aggradation - of the river bed. And while we can't cut the river weeds during the whitebait spawning season from February to April we can start cutting again on Monday 1 May. We can also remove some of the sediment and gravel.

In the meantime please walk or cycle around the flooded bit. The Eastern side is dry.

More info: https://www.marlborough.govt.nz/your-council/latest-news-notices-and-media-releases/all-news-notices-and-media-releases?item=id:2lcq2rryd1cxbyy91usd