All aboard for a comfy night's sleep

Kaipara's link with the railways has not been completely severed. Nestled in the middle of Dargaville, eight 80-to-100-year-old railway carriages have found a new lease of life as cabins.
The five-and-a-half tonne steel carriages retain their original Australian hardwood flooring, complete with steel bolts and curved kauri ceiling and walls.
Dargaville Campervan Park and Cabins trustee Ray Paxton says the carriages needed serious sandblasting to clean them up.
Now a new coat of paint, as close as possible to the original colour, has spruced up the exterior - with a few dents left as reminders of the cabins' former life - while the interiors have been refurbished.
The heavy steel doors have been pulled back on one side with a new ranch slider fitted into the gap, while the doors on the opposite side have windows added and new lining sealing the remainder of the wall. The original numbers stencilled on these former freight carriages add a further touch of authenticity.
Complete with en suite and a mini kitchen the carriage still fits a full-sized double bed in the deluxe, or bunks for five in the standard cabin.
Asked what gave him the idea, Mr Paxton laughed and said: "The carriage told me.
"My son bought me an old carriage at an auction at Tikinui one day. He rang me to tell me he had bought it for me on the condition I got all my rubbish out of his garage. I arrived to find the carriage was full of its own rubbish. Leaning against the wall was an old wire-wove bed that I had to keep moving around so I could get at the stuff stored in the shed. After I moved the bed three or four times I found that it fitted wherever I put it ... it hit me then it could be used as a cabin and the idea went from there."
The old freight cars were used to carry butter, meat and milk and were insulated to keep a controlled temperature. Heavy cranes were needed to lift them on site, with two more cabins relocated to the park last week.
Mr Paxton said the carriages were getting harder to find, some coming from as far afield as Te Rapa, but he hoped to have another seven in the near future.
Visitor numbers to the area were increasing each year and the novelty cabins were much in demand, he said.
Rail has a long history in the Kaipara - the Donnelly's Crossing railway north of Dargaville was opened in 1889, mainly for transporting logs, and reached its greatest extent in 1923.
It operated in isolation from the national rail network for decades, at one stage running across Dargaville's main street with a depot on the corner of Totara and Kapai Streets.
The Dargaville Branch was connected to the North Auckland Line in 1940; before that passenger transport had been available to Whangarei from Tangowahine.
The Donnelly's Crossing section closed in 1959.
Dargaville continued to operate a freight-only line as late as the 1990s but today the line is used only for moving logs.