Gisborne Airport - a place where the runway crosses the railroad

Gisborne Airport is located in New Zealand, Northern ostrove.Sam airport is small, located on the outskirts of the city of the same name, located on the Bay of Paverti. In Gisborne Airport not fly more planes, people in the town not so much. It is unusual that the runway crosses the real operating railway!

Railroad that crosses the runway connects towns Gisborne and Palmerston North. It was part of an ambitious project: the construction of the second major railway line in the North Island of New Zealand. Construction was started in 1872, but completed only in 1942. Until 2001, this road went from Wellington Bay Express, but it was canceled and the line became fully truck. In 2012, due to Hurricane line temporarily mothballed.