If you're looking for a day out, head to Taumarunui and enjoy one of New Zealand's great train journeys, the Raurimu Spiral trip on the North Island Main Trunk railway, where all proceeds go to the ...

KiwiRail's failure to following standard safety procedures led to an accident on the Raurimu Spiral where a freight train ploughed into an excavator on the tracks, badly hurting its driver, an ...

Taumarunui’s railway heritage is being kept alive by local model enthusiast Wayne Tantau who has started restoration work on the model railways in the Kiwi Rail building on Hakiaha St. Many people are ...

The Overlander takes on the famous Raurimu Spiral. This summer, KiwiRail has pulled the plug on the Summer Programme Raurimu Spiral train trip. Photo / NZME Whanganui Summer Programme organisers are ...

In 1997 Stephen Anderson went on a rampage in Raurimu, the central North Island settlement where his parents had a ski lodge. Anderson shot 10 people and killed six, including his own father.

Raurimu massacre gunman Stephen Anderson - whose six victims included his father - is set to publish a book revealing the “untold story” of his “heinous” crime. And ahead of the publication of The ...