Main Trunk Country Road Song

New Zealand 2007 / 20min.
Directors Dion Howard, Jamin Vollebregt / Producer Dion Howard, Jamin Vollebregt

Main Trunk Country Road Song tells the story of the threatened closure of the iconic and historic passenger rail service that winds its way along the ‘Main Trunk Line', through the North Island of NZ.

Told with poetry, music and pictures, it possesses a charm that, unlike a railway, cannot be bought — or sold. The film documents a view of events from below — this is a sort of a road song sung by people who still care to, or need to, get there by train.

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