Uptrain Downtrain - Timaru 30th August 2025 | Christchurch

Details: Christchurch to Timaru, return. Departing Christchurch Railway Station at 10.15am, returning at 4.05pm. Enjoy 90 minutes to explore Timaru. High tea & Champagne along the journey. The Court Theatre's 'Uptrain, Downtrain: Timaru Express' theatre show. Uptrain Downtrain, performed by The Court Theatre, invites you to join Lady Treadle as she hosts some of the land's most eligible bachelors for High Tea, hoping to secure a match for her daughters and the future of Scargill Abbey. But scandal and gossip can be just as delicious as tea and cakes, and there is plenty of both to be served. Join a cast of elegant ladies, cads, and bounders, scheming footmen, and ambitious ladies' maids.