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Ongarue Rail Accident 100 Year Memorial Unveiling

Friday, 7 July 2023, 5:05 pm | KiwiRail

Tomorrow, on Saturday the 8th of July at 11:00am, the Ongarue Rail Accident Memorial will be unveiled to mark 100 years since the Ongarue derailment. The derailment claimed 17 lives and seriously injured 28 others. The memorial is sited near Ongarue on the ... More >>

KiwiRail Focuses On Core Passenger And Freight Ferries

Monday, 19 June 2023, 2:04 pm | KiwiRail

KiwiRail has confirmed its intention to sell the freight-only Valentine ferry to free-up crew and funding to increase investment in reliable freight and passenger ferries. The Valentine was originally leased by KiwiRail to provide additional freight ... More >>

Budget 2023 Continues Rail Rebuild And Looks To The Future

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 3:17 pm | KiwiRail

Budget 2023 will continue work upgrading the national railway, improve rail resilience in weather damaged regions, and look towards the future with an investigation into electrifying more rail lines, KiwiRail Chief Executive Peter Reidy says. The $569.2 ... More >>

Interislander Sorry For Loss Of Power Incident, Outlines Steps To Assure Safety

Friday, 5 May 2023, 6:54 pm | KiwiRail

Interislander is sorry for any distress caused to passengers and crew when the ferry Kaitaki lost power while sailing, in January and has taken a number of steps to ensure it never happens again, KiwiRail Chief Executive Peter Reidy says. A Transport Accident ... More >>

KiwiRail - Wellington Metro Network Update

Wednesday, 3 May 2023, 2:24 pm | KiwiRail

KiwiRail Chief Executive Peter Reidy: “KiwiRail’s Track Evaluation Car has completed its assessment of the Kāpiti Line and we have now lifted the blanket 70km/h speed restriction. This will allow Metlink to return commuters services across Wellington ... More >>

KiwiRail Committed To Not Repeating Wellington Disruptions

Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 3:57 pm | KiwiRail

KiwiRail is investigating a series of failures that resulted in a specialist track machine being unable to assess the Wellington rail network in time – causing major disruption for commuters across the city. KiwiRail Chief Executive Peter Reidy says ... More >>

KiwiRail accepts independent review into Wellington metro disruptions

Monday, 1 May 2023, 6:23 pm | KiwiRail

KiwiRail will co-operate fully with the Government review into the Wellington commuter rail disruption, says KiwiRail Chair David McLean. “Chief Executive Peter Reidy has discussed the issue with Minister of Transport Michael Wood and I have discussed ... More >>

KiwiRail - Wellington Metro Network Update

Monday, 1 May 2023, 1:09 pm | KiwiRail

Chief Operations Officer Siva Sivapakkiam says: “KiwiRail’s Track Evaluation Car has travelled down from Auckland and is currently in Palmerston North. “Tonight (1 May) it will begin assessing one of the two tracks on the Kāpiti Line (between ... More >>

KiwiRail - Wellington Metro Network Update

Saturday, 29 April 2023, 7:35 pm | KiwiRail

Attributed to KiwiRail Chief Operations Officer Siva Sivapakkiam. “KiwiRail is working hard to lift speed restrictions on the Wellington metro rail network in days, not weeks.” “Our mechanical teams re-lathed the wheels of our specialist Track ... More >>

KiwiRail Speed Restrictions On Wellington’s Rail Network During May

Friday, 28 April 2023, 3:41 pm | KiwiRail

Trains to and from Wellington will be running more slowly in May due to vital KiwiRail track evaluation safety equipment being out of action. From Monday 1 May, a 70km/h speed restriction will be in place. This will limit train speeds and frequency, requiring ... More >>

Opening Of Rail Line To Hastings Helps Move More Freight In Hawke’s Bay

Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 1:52 pm | KiwiRail

  Reopening the rail line to Hastings is a significant milestone in Hawke’s Bay’s cyclone recovery and will help move cargo to and from the region’s trade gateway, Napier Port. On Monday 3 April the rail line between Woodville and Hastings ... More >>

Interislander Ferry Service Update

Friday, 3 March 2023, 11:25 am | KiwiRail

The Interislander ferry Kaitaki will resume taking passengers from Saturday 4 March. Interislander Executive General Manager Walter Rushbrook says since Kaitaki lost power on 28 January, the Interislander team has undertaken several assurance processes ... More >>

KiwiRail’s Steady Progress Provides Platform For Growth

Tuesday, 28 February 2023, 7:22 pm | KiwiRail

A lift in KiwiRail’s half-year result reflects a return to full service of its Interislander and Great Journeys New Zealand scenic passenger operations, and the lessening impact of Covid-19. KiwiRail Holdings Limited, which owns and operates ... More >>

Appointments Strengthen KiwiRail Board

Monday, 27 February 2023, 4:09 pm | KiwiRail

KiwiRail Chair David McLean has today announced former CentrePort CEO Liz Ward will be joining the KiwiRail Board on 1 May. Her appointment follows that of Rob Jager and Ed Sims who joined the Board earlier this year. Welcoming the three new directors, ... More >>

Kaitaki To Return To Cook Strait Run

Thursday, 2 February 2023, 6:03 pm | KiwiRail

“The plan is to return Kaitaki into service in a staged way. The ship will return initially as a freight-only service. After further performance and assurance checks, we will resume taking passengers. “We will confirm the timeframes as soon as we ... More >>

Kaitaki Making Progress On Return To Service

Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 12:40 am | KiwiRail

Kaitaki is making progress on its return to service, Interislander Executive General Manager Walter Rushbrook says. “The fault that caused a loss of power on Saturday has been identified and is in the process of being fixed. “The root cause was a ... More >>

Major Milestone For KiwiRail’s Wellington Ferry Terminal Upgrade - Consent Approved

Thursday, 26 January 2023, 10:36 am | KiwiRail

The upgrade of KiwiRail’s Kaiwharawhara Wellington Ferry terminal has been approved under the fast-track consenting process in what is a major milestone for the project. KiwiRail Chief Executive Peter Reidy welcomed the decision by the expert consenting ... More >>

Major Rail Work Done In Auckland Over The Holiday

Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 2:04 pm | KiwiRail

The nearly 1,300 people working across the Auckland network during the annual Christmas shutdown delivered massively in the short time they had access to the track, KiwiRail Chief Operating Officer - Capital Projects David Gordon says. “The network closure ... More >>

1,300 People Working On Rail In Auckland And Wellington Over Christmas Break

Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 11:25 am | KiwiRail

  More than 1,300 people will be out on the tracks in Auckland and Wellington over the Christmas break, making progress on rail improvement projects and undertaking essential maintenance. The Auckland metro rail network will be closed to commuter ... More >>

Work Continues On Auckland's Western (Rail) Line

Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 7:39 pm | KiwiRail

KiwiRail Chief Operating Officer – Rail Operations Siva Sivapakkiam: KiwiRail is continuing work to fully re-open Auckland’s Western Line, and now expects that to happen following the Labour Weekend network shutdown. One of the two tracks west ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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