My mistake on Twain's train ride.  Chapter 35 opens with his
description of the ride from Palmerston North to Whanganui (Wauganui),
not the journey to Wellington.  Nevertheless, there seems to be no
record of a train referred to as the Ballarat Fly.  The train he took
is known as the Napier Express.  It began as a line between Napier and
Hastings, the Palmerston North-Gisborne Line.  This eventually joined
with a line originating in Wellington, the Wairarapa Line.  They joined
at Woodville, on the eastern side of Manawatu Gorge.

I'd been away from this particular project for too long.  I had
forgotten what happened in Chapter 34.


On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 12:06 -0700, Scott Holmes wrote:
> Chapter 35 of "Following the Equator"; our hero is in New Zealand and
> takes the train from Wauganui (now called Whanganui) to Wellington.
>  He
> names this train the "Ballarat Fly".  As far as I've been able to
> determine, there was no "Ballarat Fly" in New Zealand, regardless of
> how comfortable the ride was.  He did visit Ballarat, Australia in
> October of 1895 but did not mention a "Ballarat Fly" railway.
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