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A New Arrival on Queens Wharf
Queens Wharf has a new arrival, the latest mock up of our new electric trains (EMUs). My understanding is that this is one of the last stages before the real ones starts getting built although the...
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EMU Mock up officially launched
Patrick and I were there today to see the official launch of the mock up for our new electric trains. It was unveiled by Len Brown and also present was the Spanish high commissioner, representives from...
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EMU Mock up video
Most people probably won’t get a chance to see inside the EMU mock up and while I posted some images a few weeks ago, here is a video of AT showing some members of the transport committee (along with...
View ArticleMore Matangi trains for Wellington
Some pretty exciting news for Wellingtonians today – with an announcement that instead of refurbishing the rather old Ganz Mavang trains, Wellington will instead replace them with an extension of their...
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Your Chance to Look at the EMU Mockup
The EMU mockup has been in the country for a while now and has been used to refine the design for our new trains, now that AT have finished using it for that purpose it is now on display to the public...
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September Update on the EMUs
On Wednesday is the next meeting for the Auckland Transport Board and as usual there are a couple of interesting items worth looking at. I will cover the main business report in a separate post as...
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What should we call our EMUs
This is something I have been thinking about for a little while and it seems I wasn’t the only one. A letter to Mike Lee that was included in the transport committee agenda suggests that a public...
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Sydney Morning Herald predicts Auckland’s Future
People seem to love to compare us to Sydney, it is after all the closest international to Auckland and one of the things that is frequently commented on is the their public transport system, in...
View ArticleEMU Video
A bit like they did with the CRL, AT have released a video about the new EMUs we will be getting next year. and so now you all know what I look like which I guess means it gets harder for me to hide.
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Using the SA fleet post electrification
The Herald today has an article on the rail shutdown, mainly just talking about similar stuff we mentioned in this post. However at the bottom of the article are some interesting comments by Mike Lee...
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Our EMU speeds
This year the first of our new electric trains will arrive and one of big benefits of them will be that they have faster acceleration than the clunky diesel trains we have now but the question is just...
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Wiri Depot Update
Yesterday Patrick and I had an opportunity to have a look around the progress at the EMU depot at Wiri. This was my first look around here but the second for Patrick who first got a look a few months...
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EMU production photos
The first of what I’m sure will be our superb new electric trains is under construction in Spain. The body shell for the first of the carriages has been completed and have already taken a trip to the...
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The government’s annoying funding myth
Over the last few weeks there has been a renewed media focus on Auckland’s transport issues. This has been spurred on by two main events the first was the Green Party launching their Reconnect...
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New photos of electric train progress
Auckland Transport have released some new photos of the first of our new electric trains being built in Spain. Here is the press release: The countdown is on for new electric trains to commence...
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EMU Production Video
Auckland transport have released a new video showing some of our new electric trains on the production line in Spain. The last board report gave us the following details on the progress of the project....
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Selling our old trains
One on-going question that has been bubbling away quietly in the background is what will happen to our train fleet once electrification is completed and we have all of our new electric trains. We know...
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May 2013 PT Patronage
The Board Reports ahead of tomorrow’s Auckland Transport board meeting are online, although the normal statistics report seems to not yet have been updated. Helpfully (although in a strangely...
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Electric trains will significantly boost capacity
It’s become clear to me from comments and posts both on here and elsewhere that a lot of people really don’t understand just how difference our new electric trains will have on the capacity of the...
View ArticleFirst Electric Train has been completed
The first of our new electric trains has rolled off the production line in Spain and is now only days away from being loaded onto a ship to make its way to Auckland. AT have released this video that...
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