Lindsay Mervyn Crocker, born 16 May 1958 in Taumarunui, is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 54 first-class matches for Northern Districts in the 1980s.
After investing in Taumarunui properties and businesses he moved to Browns Bay in Auckland, where his descendants still live.
It departed Auckland at 7:50pm on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, made refreshment stops in Frankton and Taumarunui as NZR did not operate dining cars at this point in history, and arrived in New Plymouth at 7:19am the next morning.
As dining cars had been removed from New Zealand's railways as an economy measure during World War I and not re-introduced until the launch of the Southerner in 1971, the train made refreshment stops in Frankton and Taumarunui.
Mockridge began his career in his native New Zealand; starting in 1977 as a reporter for the New Plymouth-based Taranaki Daily News in the small central North Island town of Taumarunui.