GREATER Wellington Regional Council has finalised the short-list for its new suburban railway contract, which covers operations on the three primary north-south corridors into the city centre, and is based on a new performance-based partnering contract model.
AUCKLAND Council's Governing Body has voted to defer the start of work on the $NZ 2.4bn ($US 1.89bn) City Rail Link (CRL), a 3.5km underground extension of the existing suburban line beneath the city centre until 2018-19, two years later than previously planned.
NEW ZEALAND's national railway KiwiRail has posted losses of $NZ 248m ($US 208m) for the 2013-14 financial year, which ended on June 30 2014, compared with a deficit of $NZ 174m in the previous financial year.
Windhoff faced a number of unusual challenges in equipping a new workshop in Auckland, New Zealand explains Windhoff's project manager, Wolfgang Klein-Katthöfer. The workshop will be used to maintain a fleet of CAF suburban EMUs which started to enter service on April 28.
THE government of New Zealand has allocated an additional NZ$ 198m ($US 170m) to KiwiRail as part of its 2014 budget, which was announced on May 14.
AUCKLAND is today celebrating the start of electrified services on its commuter network as eight new three-car CAF EMUs entered revenue service on the Onehunga line, between Onehunga and Britomart in the city centre.
GREATER Wellington Regional Council has sold 34 redundant class EM emus built by Ganz-Mavag, Hungary, in 1982, to an unnamed buyer in South Africa, which will refurbish the trains for re-use in Africa.
An electrified commuter rail network is set to begin operating in Auckland in May 2014. Richard Worrall profiles the project's three main elements and considers the impact on the area's public transport.
THE Mayor of Auckland Mr Len Brown has officially unveiled the first emu for Auckland Transport, 57 of which were ordered from CAF in October 2011 as part of the $NZ 1.6bn ($US 1.3bn) upgrading and electrification of the city's suburban rail network.
NEW ZEALAND's national railway KiwiRail has reported an annual operating profit of $NZ 108.2m ($US 85.3m) for the financial year ending June 30, an increase of 3.1% compared with the previous financial year.