North New Brighton
North New Brighton is a suburb on the northern side of Christchurch city.
North New Brighton is a suburb on the northern side of Christchurch city. It was originally known as North Beach and was readily accessible from Christchurch city by tram. It was renamed North New Brighton in 1953. A large sports centre and swimming pool is on the same locale as the former Queen Elizabeth II Park. The centre was rebuilt and opened in 2018.
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Worth seeing in and around North New Brighton
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01New Brighton Pier
There have been two New Brighton Piers in the Christchurch, New Zealand, suburb of New Brighton. The first pier, of wooden construction, opened on 18 January 1894 and was demolished on 12 October 1965.
2 km · pier in New Zealand · Wikipedia
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Getting to North New Brighton
- Airports
- Christchurch (CHC), 15 km · Wellington (WLG), 296 km
- Wellington → North New Brighton298 km · quickest by air, 4h 6m · NZ$150–230
- Queenstown → North New BrightonTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Auckland → North New Brighton759 km · quickest by air, 5h 25m · NZ$230–350
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for North New Brighton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for North New Brighton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis scenic train journey can be done as a day trip.
- Get inAt Picton the Coastal Pacific connects with the Cook Strait ferries from Wellington in the North Island.
- Get inThe train departs Christchurch at 7AM and arrives in Picton at 1:15PM, connecting with the 2PM ferry to Wellington.
- Get inThe 9AM ferry from Wellington connects with the train departing Picton at 2:15PM and arriving in Christchurch at 8:30PM.
- Get aroundServices cover the whole city and areas of interest for a visitor that lie outside the central city, such as Sumner and New Brighton beaches, Lyttelton, and the Gondola.
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Next door to North New Brighton
North New Brighton is 8 km from Christchurch, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.