So it plans to try to block the tourist venture, which says it already has 45 customers.
The line is not currently in service for rail traffic and under lease for a tourist venture.
The more power and involvement the local people have in the parks and tourist ventures in their areas, the more likely they will benefit economically.
There is now a wide range of Māori-owned enterprises such as television and radio, businesses and tourist ventures.
Cessnock has begun to develop other tourist ventures beyond the wine industry such as championship golf courses, hot air ballooning, sky-diving, and guest house accommodation.
But, he said, Londonderry's newest tourist venture would be a success.
Rasoun is also on the Abraham Path, a tourist venture designed to create walking paths following sites important in the Abrahamic religions.
Over the next two decades, private investors failed in efforts to run successful tourist ventures at the publicly owned site.
All the buildings are heritage listed but are yet to used for any tourist ventures.
In the 1990s one of the Alliston children, Rob, returned to the island to run a tourist venture.