Hi Brakepad
great looking eh and yes finally auckland is realising that a city
of their size needs a trains that can shift a lot of people and
a rail system, they have been car nuts for years,while our wellington
has had electric trains for 50 years, so they have seen laterly how trains
can shift people apart from the first night of the world cup which to me
it seemed like everyone in auckland decided that night to travel suddenly
by train instead of 50% by train then the rest by bus and car and foot
but they will learn, and then some idoits just kept pushing the emergency
buttons and locking the brakes, so you can give some people new trains
but then you have to teach them how to use them
great to hear you guys got the job, the new wgtn ones have been a real problem
and then came from korea.
regards
bryan old toot

Thanks for that Brakepad, that's the first glimpse of of the new Auckland Locomotives I have seen, I have been observing the slow progress they are making erecting Catenary Masts unfortunately here at the end of the Western line (I'm just around the corner from Lord Macca) we won't be getting electrification so I guess they'll have to run a few shuttle trains (Diesel)I guess that'll give me something to listen at night . . . sigh, now if it was Steam then we'd be talkin . . . why didn't the Auckland Council go for those? No sense of the Rail sensation at all! Always a pleasure when Mainline Steam's JA1275 steams on through the Township. http://www.mainlinesteam.co.nz/Ja1275.html

Cmon Rick, the Wellington network desperately needed some upgrade work done and money spent on it. There's no reason why Auckland should get all the funding, New Zealand doesn't stop at the Bombay hills.

I did excaggerate a bit, but I still get the idea that Auckland is always having to play catch-up with Wellington in these things.
It probably is a compensation for you guys being stuck with the politicians

Spoken like a true Jaffa!






You mean, I can't take the train next time I come to visit you!

Hi all
well its interesting about the elctrification I always could not
understand when they ran the overhead to Hamilton they were actually
under budget why they never just carried on to pukekohe at least
just didn't make sense,while they had the team of contractors togther
and also like when the drilled the tunnel to the waiarapa
years ago the italian drillers offered the govt of the day to drill a
parallel tunnel for cars and they turned them down as they thought it would never be needed !!!

so we are looking at the same issue down here with the effect of the earthquake they are talking
rail into centre of town and considering we have rail from Rangiora to the edge of hagley and also from
Lyttleton, and the Hornby line south with a branch nearly at Rolleston, a loop across the bottom of
Hagley and up through the trees to the hospital and then straight down tuam street and then high street linking
back up about the back of AMI stadium.
We could like wgtn have easy access for sports events and the trains
could run even from as far as Ashburton/timaru with CAF like units and like Germany after the war we could
put in the train/lightrail system and rebuild the town back around it and create a link from the airport as well
to bring tourists right into town,and the trams continue to provide the inner city movement.
The wgtn trains have been great over the years we lived just across the road from Ngaio station and our record
was 45 secs from back door to train but they offered trains every 12 mins at peak and every 30 off peak and
every morning they would bring 40000 people into wgtn between 8.00 and 8.30, but after 50 years they needed upgrading
and all the electrics and signals one guy working on it told me was just hanging by a thread,so they have had to replace
all that as well which has caused some delays, as everything they touched he said fell apart it was so run down.
so its great to see wgtn and auckland realising the rail is the real people mover for the future.
regards
old toot go the all blacks