Early yesterday morning a group of us gathered at Wellington railway station while in Auckland the local Greens there along with Keith Locke handed out flyers and collected signatures on the petition to save the Overlander.

The campaign is important both in protecting our past - the trains two years short of its hundreth birthday, but also our future. We need to ensure that we have transport options avlaible when we can't rely on imported enegy supplies. If we just spent a little money and effort on it, the Overlander could be a fast, modern and attractive way to travel the North Island, that has the potential to be cheaper than air travel and much, much cleaner.