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Electric Train Driving Simulator
After his interview on TVNZ yesterday where he talked about the congestion free network, Len Brown headed south to Wiri launch the driving simulators for our new electric trains. Patrick and I both...
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The Great Upgrade Timeline
Public transport patronage has been source of much concern for the last year and a half on the back of falling or flat numbers which followed about 6 years of almost constant growth. During that time...
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Auckland’s first electric train arrives
There has been various proposals to electrify the Auckland rail network over the last 90 years (usually also involving building a version of the CRL at the same time) so it’s been a long wait but today...
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First EMU makes it to Wiri
On Saturday our first electric trains arrived and last night they were moved to Wiri in the early hours of this morning where they are now tucked away out of sight for engineers to begin the...
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Electrification and EMU update to Transport Committee
At the transport committee meeting on Wednesday Kiwirail provided an update on electrification progress while Auckland Transport had an update on what is happening with the EMUs. Electrification The...
View ArticleEMU unveiling video
Just in case you haven’t had enough news of the electric trains, here is a short video of them put together by Auckland Transport
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EMUs – the future sounds silent
Six weeks ago Auckland’s first electric train arrived in the country, just over 3 weeks ago it was officially unveiled and yesterday marked a new milestone as testing reached the point where it was...
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Electric Trains a lot cheaper to run
The first of the trains is in the country and undergoing testing with the good news being that the testing is going well with the train performing well. This was the update to the AT board yesterday:...
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Photo of the day – Britomart haze
The haze at Britomart from the diesel fumes. I can’t wait for the day when we only have electric trains stopping at the station. Speaking of electric trains, reader Gianfranco sent me these photo’s...
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Our First Electric Train
Today is a pretty special day as Auckland Transport are officially unveiling our first electric train. It arrived in the country a few weeks ago but it was trucked to Wiri under wraps so that staff...
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Testing Auckland’s trains
One of the biggest developments that has occurred this year has been the arrival of our first electric trains. There are now four in the country and the depot is filling up so fast that in a few weeks...
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2013: A year in review – Part 1
Over the next few days I’ll be doing a series of posts recapping the year before beginning the new year by looking at what we can expect in the year ahead. For me when it comes to transport, 2013 was...
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Photo of the day: EMU vs motorway
A great photo from Alex Burgess today showing one of our new electric trains in testing/driver training alongside SH1. The first trains enter service to Onehunga on April 28th.
View ArticleAdvertising our new electric trains starts on TV tonight
Tonight Auckland Transport are starting an advertising campaign to build up hype for the new electric trains. It will start with the the 15 second ad below. On Sunday a 30 second ad will actually show...
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Electrification officially turned on
Yesterday the switch was officially flipped on electrification of the Auckland rail network - well at least the on the section into Britomart. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it so am relying on...
View ArticleBe one of the first to ride our new electric trains
Want a trip on one of Auckland’s brand new electric trains before they start carrying the first fare paying passengers on the 28th April? 5000 lucky Aucklanders first to ride electric trains On...
View ArticleFull AT EMU ad
On Sunday Auckland Transport released the full 30 second version of their TV ad. I must say I think they’ve done a great job with these. In particular I love that they have highlighted the speed aspect...
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Miss out on tickets to the EMU launch?
Did you miss out on tickets to be one of the first to ride electric trains next weekend and do you want some? If so then you may be in luck. Auckland Transport have given me three double passes to give...
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Herald confirms our electric trains are quiet
The Herald yesterday ran a story on just how quiet the new electric trains are. In a polar opposite there was a lot of noise on twitter about how the article was initially presented but after getting...
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The Rail Electrified
Generations dreamed the wires, Doubters shook their heads in scorn. Brave men vowed that they would build it From their faith electrification was born. There it spans the miles of track Speeding...
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