Posted 12 years ago by markcurtis
Auckland is unlikely to get electric trains until 2014, and may have to accept a smaller fleet in time for the Rugby World Cup than the Government is buying Wellingtonians.
Posted 12 years ago by bevans
A tilt at Australian rail and port operator Asciano by New Zealand's richest man Graeme Hart is being seen as cheeky.
Australian media reported this week that Mr Hart put in a complex offer to inject equity and support capital raisings by embattled Asciano, which was considering offers from private equity companies as part of a "monetisation" strategy.
Posted 12 years ago by markcurtis
A group of Waikato children pelted a train driver with stones after he stopped on a railway bridge to warn them to stop playing on it.
Posted 12 years ago by markcurtis
More than $1 billion worth of major Auckland civic developments are under threat from the global recession which has sent returns from the regional council's strategic investments into freefall.
Posted 12 years ago by markcurtis
KiwiRail's new chief executive Jim Quinn admits he is no engineer, but he has a background in logistics and has worked with KiwiRail chairman Jim Bolger.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
The National-led Government will be asked to jump aboard Auckland's billion-dollar rail electrification project in the first weeks of power.
Posted 13 years ago by bevans
The main trunk railway lines were closed south of Auckland today following a fire at Pukekohe railway station.
Emergency services were called about 11am to the fire, believed to have started in the switch room before quickly spreading to the upper floor of the building.
Posted 13 years ago by bevans
New Zealand Railways Corporation acting CEO, William Peet, has laid out his roadmap for the country’s rail, throwing a few surprises into the mix.
Speaking at the Waikato Transport Summit this week, he laid out a clearer picture of how the $1 billion set aside for his state-owned enterprise would be spent over the next five years.
Mr Peet was appointed acting chief executive officer of the New Zealand Railways Corporation in October 2007 following the re-nationalisation of the rail sector.
Posted 13 years ago by bevans
The first significant length of new railway track in New Zealand since the 1950s is being laid on the West Coast.
Track is now being built at the access point to the main rail system for Pike River Coal deliveries from the West Coast to the export port at Lyttelton.
The $12 million rail loading facility is alongside the main Trans Alpine rail line near the small community of Ikamatua in the Grey Valley, 54km north east of Greymouth.
The foundations for the 1.7km rail loop have been completed and state rail system operator OnTrack is now laying down the new line.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
Former Prime Minister Jim Bolger will head KiwiRail, the country's renationalised rail network.
The Government took ownership of the rail and ferry assets at midnight.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
Haggling over the details of the government buyback of Toll Holdings' rail business in New Zealand will go right to the wire today.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
Auckland Regional Council chairman Mike Lee is looking forward to the purchase of electric trains after legislation providing for special road-fuel taxes for public transport projects won majority support for a second reading in Parliament yesterday.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
Finance Minister Michael Cullen is offering Auckland $6 million to get more shipping containers off the region's roads, and on to trains.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
Auckland Regional Council leaders are defending their allocation of scarce transport funds to a trial Helensville rail service, even though the cost of building temporary platforms has doubled.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
State-owned rail track company Ontrack said it will need another $400 million over five years to bring the tracks up to speed.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
New commuter services starting next month from the two outer extremities of Auckland's rail network - Pukekohe and Helensville - will mean timetable changes for passengers throughout the region.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
Uncertainty over new fuel-tax legislation is forcing Auckland Regional Council to prepare for a possible public transport future without electric trains.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
First clockwork orange was wound down, then fruit salad went off and bumble bee took flight, now corn cob is to be shucked.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
Hundreds of Auckland rail commuters faced long, gruelling trips home last night after a fault forced train crews to hand-wind signals along their routes.
Posted 13 years ago by markcurtis
The Government has confirmed it has had an approach from a consortium interested in operating the troubled Overlander service between Wellington and Auckland.
Posted 13 years ago by bevans
Australia's largest freight company, Toll Holdings, has acquired New Zealand's United Carriers trucking company after the suitor recently sold its rail and ferry operations in that country.
The transport operator said it had signed a conditional purchase agreement for the trucking business, which had an annual turnover of about $NZ50 million ($A41.7 million).
Posted 13 years ago by Centralvulcan
NZ Finance Minister Michael Cullen announced this morning that agreement has been reached between Toll Holdings and the Government for the rail and ferry business to return to public ownership.
Posted 13 years ago by bevans
Promoters of a rail link to Auckland airport are turning up the heat to secure an agreement before it’s too late.
Lobby group The Campaign for Better Transport wants Auckland’s various transport agencies and Transit to designate a suitable railway corridor before construction of the second Manukau Harbour crossing begins.
Posted 14 years ago by markcurtis
Planners are unveiling a sweeping design for a train station with multiple passenger access points in a $75 million redevelopment of Newmarket's rail junction.
Posted 14 years ago by markcurtis
Auckland's regional leadership has big plans for electric trains to be ready for the 2011 Rugby World Cup - but just how 60,000 fans will converge on Eden Park remains sketchy...
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