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Please make a donation or organise a fundraising event to make sure the kiwi sticks around for future generations. KiwiRail released in a year turnaround plan for the rail industry. Nevertheless, significant improvements in freight volumes have followed other than with coal.
Two of KiwiRail's major customers, Mainfreight and Fonterra , also invested heavily in rail-related infrastructure. In , the government began a "Future of Rail" review, and in December released a draft New Zealand Rail Plan, outlining changes to the rail transport industry. The City Rail Link is an underground rail line currently under construction linking Britomart Transport Centre to Mount Eden railway station in Auckland, and is due to open in Light rail networks are planned for Auckland and Wellington.
In December , the Government of New Zealand committed funding to reintroducing a five-year trial rail service, named Te Huia , between Papakura in southern Auckland to Hamilton, starting in Freight is carried by KiwiRail and provides the majority of its revenue traffic. Major bulk freight includes coal, lime, steel, wood and wood products, paper pulp, dry and liquid milk, cars, fertiliser, grain and shipping containers.
Freight levels have returned to the level that they were at when the railway had a virtual monopoly on land transport, prior to In By , tonnes carried had increased to In recent years the amount of freight moved by rail has increased substantially and has started to gain market share in non-bulk areas as well.
Until June , Dunedin Railways operated tourist trains out of Dunedin , with frequent services on the former Otago Central Railway line and occasional services north from Dunedin to Palmerston. Mixed trains were "once the backbone of the New Zealand railway passenger system" on branch and even main lines; but the last scheduled mixed train ran between Whangarei and Opua on 6 June With a "rake of assorted wagons" and one or two passenger carriages, often listed as "goods with car" in timetables, they were slow, often stopping and shunting wagons en route. In the s they ran from Christchurch to Springfield on the Midland Line, and into the s overnight between Christchurch and Dunedin.
On the North Island Main Trunk they ran during the day while the expresses ran at night. On the Okahukura-Stratford Line they lasted to the early s. In the s and s, most provincial routes had railcar and locomotive-hauled passenger services. In , 25 million passengers travelled by rail; by the number had decreased to Currently, Auckland and Wellington have suburban passenger services. In both cities, the respective local governments own the suburban passenger rolling stock and contract the operation of services to a third-party, in both cases Transdev. In , Wellington became the second city after the Christchurch service to Lyttelton to have electric suburban trains, and from to was the only city with them.
From July , the services have been operated by Transdev Wellington. Wellington's suburban rolling stock consists of electric multiple units , with diesel locomotive-hauled carriage trains used on the Wairarapa service. All of the rolling stock except the diesel locomotives is owned by Greater Wellington Rail Limited, a subsidiary of Greater Wellington Regional Council. Transdev Wellington contracts KiwiRail to provide and operate the required diesel locomotives. Auckland's network consists of four lines: Southern , Eastern , Western and Onehunga. All services on these lines are provided by AM class electric trains , the conversion from diesel being completed by the end of [49] with the exception of the non-electrified section of track between Papakura and Pukekohe, where a diesel train shuttle service operates.
In recent years the mothballed Onehunga Branch was reopened [50] and a new line was built Manukau Branch , opened April Most Auckland rolling stock is owned by Auckland Transport, which funds and coordinates all services. In , the recently elected Labour -led Coalition government proposed to provide commuter rail in Christchurch and to provide long-distance commuter services from Auckland to Hamilton and Tauranga. Other cities Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill and Napier-Hastings once had suburban services, but they were withdrawn due to a lack of patronage.
The Christchurch-Lyttelton suburban service was stopped in when passengers were down to "a busload". The last "boat train" for the ferry service to Wellington ran in The There were worker's trains north to Rangiora; two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Dunedin had suburban trains to Port Chalmers and Mosgiel, withdrawn on 3 December The Invercargill to Bluff service stopped in ; in the sole Clayton steam railcar had been used. Worker's concession tickets had been introduced in , initially for the Wellington-Hutt service, and extended next year to Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin and then between Westport and Waimangaroa.
Up to the s and s, pupils had to commute to larger towns for secondary education from places that only had a primary school; for example from rural Canterbury to Christchurch Technical High School. The service was cancelled when Queen Charlotte College opened in Picton in , and those students remaining at the Marlborough Colleges switched to buses.
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The NZR offered season tickets for primary and secondary school students from , using funds paid for out of the Education budget, and from for students attending primary schools from a place lacking a local school. School season passes increased from in to 29, in —15, when one in seven primary and secondary students travelled by train.
Some pupils reached home after dark in the winter and had to milk cows before and after school. John Pascoe said that some children spend "up to six hours a day travelling.
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The New Zealand rail network has around 4, kilometres 2, miles of line, [62] of which about kilometres miles is electrified. At the network's peak in , some 5, kilometres 3, miles of line was open.
The network has been the subject of major upgrading works on a number of occasions. All of these involved major tunnelling works, of close to 9 kilometres 5. Significant infrastructure improvements were also carried out on the North Island Main Trunk in the mids, some as part of the electrification scheme. As part of the year Turnaround Plan announced in , a number of regional lines were placed under threat of closure: [70] all lines in Northland that form part of the North Auckland Line , the Stratford—Okahukura Line in Taranaki mothballed since , the northern portion of the Wairarapa Line , the Gisborne — Napier section of the Palmerston North - Gisborne Line mothballed due to storm damage north of Wairoa early , mothballed Napier — Gisborne from October [71] As part of KiwiRail's year long-term plan, most new capital will be spent on locomotives, wagons and the Auckland — Wellington — Christchurch freight corridor.
Signals are of the colour light type and operate on speed signalling principles, i. From its inception until the s, steam locomotives were the main motive power on New Zealand's railways. Initially, steam locomotives were mostly imported from the United Kingdom from various manufacturers.
From the s, locomotives were imported from the United States, and generally found to be better suited to New Zealand's conditions, although the pro-British public and politicians preferred locomotives from the United Kingdom. Dieselisation of rail transport began in the late s with small shunting locomotives. The last steam locomotive to be built by NZR, J A , was introduced into service in December , and by , steam had all but disappeared from the North Island. Steam remained in the South Island until November , when the last seven J A locomotives that worked the Main South Line were withdrawn from revenue service, steam in the South Island having been displaced by the DJ class locomotive.
Starting from the mids, the first generation diesel locomotives were withdrawn, being replaced by new locomotives, predominantly designs from North America. The last of the first-generation diesel locomotives were withdrawn in the late s and early s. Due to a decline in rail freight volumes following land transport deregulation in , and the introduction of electrification on the North Island Main Trunk, no new mainline diesel locomotives were introduced in the s.
The first new diesel locomotives imported to New Zealand since the s were the DL class locomotives from China, arriving from onwards. In the s, two short sections of railway line were electrified at V DC: Arthur's Pass to Otira electrified and Christchurch to Lyttelton , both which have since been decommissioned.
In , electrification of Auckland 's suburban rail network was completed, also built to 25 kV AC.