This town has a railway station on the Hay branch off the Main South Line.
Well away from the site of the base, but equally important was the construction of the airbase's aviation fuel bunker, the largest in the country which was located at Bankside, beside the north bank of the Rakaia River next the Main South Line Railway.
Expresses between Christchurch and Dunedin began operating as soon as the Main South Line was opened.
After leaving Christchurch, the train travels through the fertile Canterbury Plains past the Waimakariri River along the Main South Line, to Rolleston.
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It is located on State Highway 1 approximately half way between Balclutha and Gore (the section of State Highway 1 between Clinton and Gore is known as "The Presidential Highway", after Bill Clinton and Al Gore), and the Main South Line railway passes through the town.
A new station was built south-east of the original station as part of the extension of the line to the Main South Line at Glenfield opening in August 1987 with the original station closed and demolished.
They also occasionally hauled coal services from Glenlee Colliery on the Main South line to Port Kembla and Rozelle.
The Southern Highlands Express was an Australian passenger train operating on the Main South line in New South Wales from Sydney to Goulburn.
CTC was then installed from Rolleston to Pukeuri Junction on the Main South Line in stages from 1969 to completion in February 1980.