Invercargill is the southernmost city on New Zealand's state highway network and is linked to Fiordland and the Catlins by theSouthern Scenic Route and Dunedin and Gore by SH 1. It is also the southern end of SH6 coming from Queenstown and theWest Coast. The main streets of Invercargill: Dee (SH 6) and Tay (SH 1) measure over 40 metres wide. Numerous roads in the city are dual-carriageway but there are no expressways/motorways proposed for the city.
See also: Public transport in Invercargill
Rail links
Invercargill is at the southern end of the Main South Line railway, which extends up the east coast to Christchurch andLyttelton via Dunedin. Until the cancellation of The Southerner in 2002, Invercargill had the southernmost passenger railway station in the world. Passenger trains no longer call at Invercargill, except for occasional excursions. The Bluff Branch extends south from Invercargill and has been freight-only since 1967. The Wairio Branch extends northwest from Invercargill to theSolid Energy coalfields near Ohai and continues to carry freight even after the closing of the Ohai coal mine. Invercargill was once the centre of a much larger rail network, but over the years, since retrenched and was the first town in new zealand to have a steam locomotive and had the first railway in new zealand.
Airport
During the mid 1950s, Invercargill Airport was used for fuel top-up and final take off by Operation Deep Freeze. Twin-engine propeller-driven planes destined for McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic used the airport, assisted in takeoff by JATO rockets. Larger aircraft flew from Christchurch when a permanent Deep Freeze base was established there.
Air New Zealand operates eight daily flights to Christchurch and two to Wellington. Stewart Island Flights make regular flights to and from Stewart Island/Rakiura. Mount Cook Airline and Air Nelson, wholly owned subsidiaries of Air New Zealand, also
