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Driving down to start the Railtrail. For a good suggestion, READ ON !
Increasingly we have people driving to Central to start the Railtrail. A good TIP for those people is for you to drive to Middlemarch and leave your car with us for either secure inside or outside storage. Catch our bus that day to Clyde where you stay the night and then start the trail the next morning, cycling back to your car. This way you don't have to wait for the bus to take you back to Clyde. As most people will finish around lunch time, if they do 4 days on the trail, you will effectively be 5 hours earlier on the road home or to your next destination. Contact our team for more information. CLICK HERE
Hedgehog Bikes
Trail Journeys are pleased to supply display material for a promotion in Hedgehog Bikes Botany store. The display featured the Giant Bikes that Trail Journeys use on the Railtrail and created at lot of interest in the store. Click here to view the display
Bookings on Railtrail under pressure for March and April
Please don't book airfares prior to getting your accommodation sorted on the trail. We are increasingly finding people are expecting that accommodation will be available and are booking airfares prior to booking accommodation. This not only leads to disapointment, but also loss of money on airfares. Please contact us for information on availability, we will only be to pleased to help.
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Ride the Trail - Day 4
Hyde to Middlemarch 29km
Today is a shorter ride and downhill but this allows you plenty of time to have a great breakfast and still make the lunch time train. Look out for the Hyde railway station just around the corner from the Hyde community and a little later the Hyde train disaster site. If you're really lucky you may also see the famous "Taieri Pet", the fantastic cloud shape that sometimes forms during strong North Westerlies (check out todays photo galleries). If you do see the Pet you'll be very pleased that you're cycling from Clyde to Middlemarch (with the prevailing winds BEHIND you !) .
Note that if you're doing the Taieri Gorge Train trip to Dunedin, in the summer season (1st October - 30th April) the train leaves at 1pm and arrives at Dunedin at 3.30pm on Friday and Sunday. On all the other days the train will leave from Pukerangi (about 20min bus ride from Middlemarch) at 4.45pm. We request that you be in Middlemarch by 3.45pm to catch our bus to meet the train at Pukerangi. (The late train also runs to Pukerangi on Friday and Sunday) There is an early train to Pukerangi each day, leaving Pukerangi at 11.30am to travel back to Dunedin, but this mainly caters for the Dunedin Tourist market and bus services to Pukerangi for this train are limited unless a larger group require special service. If you're being transported by Trail Journeys back to your start then have lunch at the local pub or one of the cafes before we pick you up to return you to Clyde (Typically we aim to have you back in Clyde by 4pm though this can change depending on how busy the trail is).