A toddler has survived a shocking 25 metre plunge from a moving carriage on a popular scenic mountain railway line in the Coromandel Peninsula.
Emergency services were called to Driving Creek Railway, a tourist hotspot that attracts visitors from all over the world, earlier today.
A Westpac helicopter crewman said the boy fell from a carriage travelling over the second-storey of the mountainous circuit's double decker bridge.
The child was taken to Auckland's Starship Hospital in a serious but stable condition.
The Driving Creek Railway wends its way through a mountain track at the back of Thames and includes spirals, tunnels and several large viaducts.
Sides are left open for passengers to get close up views of potters' workshops and kilns and pass by bushland at close quarters.