#kiwirail — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kiwirail, aggregated by home.social.
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The TranzAlpine rail service from Christchurch to Greymouth stopped today, after the train got stuck in a tunnel.
How does a train get stuck in a tunnel? The story doesn't elaborate. But we're assured that enquiries will be conducted.
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New Cook Strait ferries to cost $1.86 billion http://dlvr.it/TPMlxP #KiwiRail #NewZealand #RailNews #interislanderFerry
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Just flew half way around the globe without pre-booked tickets (stand by, staff travel). No problem and quite smooth.
Got to Germany and wanted to cover the last 250 km with a pre-booked ticket with a single train on German #rail (#DeutscheBahn) from FRA airport.
What a nightmare and disaster! Some #DB reps were *very* helpful (in their attempts, esp. as we were travelling with our special needs daughter and lots of luggage). But they were equally p*ssed off by the broken system. If it was at least affordable enough ... but no. Really quite pricey, too (without any special tickets/cards one doesn't have coming for a visit from abroad).
The only bonus: Our son had never been on a 'proper' train. And he was excited to the max. Bouncing around and doing a dance with ever train entering/leaving the station. And on the 'short' (in time) bit riding the ICE bullet train doing F1 racing car speeds he was quite thrilled as well.
Now I believe #KiwiRail is superior in reliability and service to German rail!
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It's embarrassing to live in a country where people can honestly say 'if I was rich I'd take the train'.
In the 1980s we had a passenger rail system that could get your from one end of the country to the other, on an ordinary worker's wage. But after more than 4 decades of corporatisation and underinvestment, intercity trains are marketed as a scenic tourist attraction, and only the well-heeled can afford a ticket to ride them.
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While RNZ headlined their story thus:
"New KiwiRail director Scott O'Donnell linked to NZ First donation, government loan"
The ODT runs the same story, but with a different headline.
"'Perception of quid-pro-quo': Southern businessman made KiwiRail director"
I prefer the ODT version.
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Calls to restore passenger train service to Auckland’s Kumeū-Huapai http://dlvr.it/TLPKMy #Auckland #KiwiRail #NewZealand #RailNews
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NZ Budget 2025 Continues Solid Investment In Rail http://dlvr.it/TKsljC #KiwiRail #NewZealand #RailindustrynewsAustraliaNewZealand #NZBudget
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This short video about the sunsetting of "A Box" at Wellington Railway Station is well worth a watch. As a bittersweet window into the working lives of the otherwise invisible KiwiRail workers who keep our rail systems running smoothly;
https://peertube.nz/w/fx4Sfge5mPAWQyC4aQBAet
But also as a snapshot of how little development our rail systems have had since most of it was corporatised in 1991, and renationalised in 2008. Some of the gear in A Box is almost a century old.
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Rail Ferries and Streamlined Infrastructure http://dlvr.it/TJtQfQ #KiwiRail #NewZealand #RailindustrynewsAustraliaNewZealand
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"The freight and passenger services we run by rail and Interislander must stand on their own feet financially, in line with our shareholder's expectations."
#PeterReidy, Chief Executive, #KiwiRail
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/10/17/kiwirail-offers-voluntary-redundancy-to-all-staff/
As one of roughly 5 million "shareholders", I just want to flag that this is *not* what I expect. What I expect is long term investment in affordable passenger rail and ferry services to anywhere with rails. Like what we had in the 70s, but powered 100% by renewable energy.
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@billbennett My grandparents lived opposite the railway station at Wingatui from about 1954 to 1990. We spent many happy days playing at the station. Nowadays it's closed as an actual railway station. Trains still pass through of course, like this one back in 2015.
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The mess that our railways are in - including the Interislander - is a direct result of decades of underinvestment in maintaining and upgrading infrastructure. Both under corporate ownership as Transrail, and under the Key government after they were bought back into public ownership at the tail end of the Clark government.
The grounding of the Aratere was a direct result of this.
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CW: Suggestion of incompetence in Ferry grounding.
Half a mind to work for #Kiwirail?
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Boarding @GreatJourneysNZ #KiwiRail “Northern Explorer” at #Auckland 🇳🇿. This is the departure point for today’s trip across New Zealand’s North Island, all the way down to #Wellington.
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The #Auckland 🇳🇿 to #Wellington #KiwiRail #GreatJourneysNZ “Northern Explorer” has got a lovely #Café @diningcar. Time to head for a nice New Zealand breakfast. (And time to make this post as long as we’ve got mobile network coverage.)
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"#ShaneJones and #WinstonPeters were ginormous boosters of #KiwiRail and secured a lot of funding for it when they were in the previous #coalition." #NZ #rail's track of perpetual failure https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018935314/the-de-railing-of-new-zealand
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Stadler liefert neue Lokomotiven für KiwiRail in Neuseeland
#Stadler #Lokomotive #Rangierlok #KiwiRail #Neuseeland #Bahnindustrie
https://bahnblogstelle.com/212969/stadler-liefert-neue-loks-fuer-kiwirail-in-neuseeland/
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#Wellington has the #RestorePassengerRail protesters disrupting transport in our capital
#Auckland has #kiwirail disrupting #transport in our biggest city
After years of poor quality #publicTransport - but more important the poor communication around disruptions often adding hours to my commute each week - I finally bought a car
Arguably, sorting out public transport will do more reducing our #emissions than the #CleanCarDiscount
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How to take an issue 95% of people agree with (more passenger rail services) and alienate 99% of the locals while trying to achieve that.
Hard to believe someone thought "Let's inconvenience the most number of people we can. That will make our cause really popular."#wellington #newzealand #nzrailways #kiwirail
'Wellington commuter nightmare' - Climate protesters strike again https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/489304/wellington-commuter-nightmare-climate-protesters-strike-again
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Inclusive Access is a key aim of the #NZ Transport Outcomes Framework. But #KiwiRail's long-distance train pricing is the very definition of exclusive access, deliberately priced for affluent international visitors, excluding all but the richest Kiwis from getting around by train. And certainly not affordable for family travel (example requires two overnight stays at extra cost as well).
