sentences:  The "Rotorua Express" returned for the peak Christmas, summer, and Easter period and now operated thrice weekly in each direction.This arrangement continued until 1899, when the "Rotorua Express" began operating every week of the entire year.The Rotorua Express has the distinction of being the very first express passenger train in the world to be hauled by Pacific locomotives, when Q349 hauled it out of Auckland on Christmas Eve, 1901.