Tauranga residents braved their safety as they walked backwards on the railway line along The Strand in protest of Government pressuring KiwiRail to buy diesel-powered trains.
Eight people gathered with protest signs in the hopes to turn the Government and KiwiRail's decision of buying diesel trains instead of electric-powered trains.
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Local advocate Emma-leigh Hodge said they were holding a local protest to coincide with a parliamentary protest being held to in Wellington today.
She said they were walking backwards in the direction the Government was taking.