00:00Firing up the engine and fascinating the young and old.
00:08He loves Pacific Nationals.
00:10And Tangaro and...
00:12They're just cool. They're just big and cool.
00:15For some, this was the golden age of travel.
00:18The trains are always on time.
00:21And from first to second class, sleeping to dining,
00:25there's a chance to try it all as it used to be.
00:28We're on the railway refreshment rooms, tea service.
00:32It's just classic. It's beautiful. I love it.
00:34It makes me feel wonderful inside.
00:39A ticket, a penny a section.
00:41It really made the world so much smaller, the city so much smaller,
00:45because before trams and trains,
00:48the only thing you could do was either have a horse,
00:50you had to be rich, or you walked.
00:52And it's not just trains.
00:54There are heritage buses and steamboats ferrying passengers around the city.
00:58It's beautiful.
01:00Have they got any worries about reliability?
01:02No.
01:04That's why they're 101-year-old.
01:06This weekend is a chance for thousands of people
01:09to experience train and bus travel from a different era,
01:12one where tickets cost a fraction of the price that they do now,
01:15and warnings about the yellow line, well, they didn't exist.
01:18WHISTLE BLOWS
01:21OK, folks, you know the drill. Stand behind the yellow line, please.
01:25The exhibition runs until tomorrow night.
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