AUCKLAND Transport (AT) announced on April 24 that it has shortlisted three bidders for a contract to operate the city's commuter rail network from July 2016.
NEW ZEALAND's state-owned national railway KiwiRail dipped back into the red in the second half of last year according to the company's latest financial results, which show a loss of $NZ 6.8m ($US 5m) compared with a profit of $NZ 3.5m in the second half of 2013.
THE board of Auckland Transport has called for studies to be carried out into the construction of a light rail network in New Zealand's largest city.
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.
