Railway sleepers targeted in string of thefts across Whangārei businesses and KiwiRail

He suspected the sleepers were being sold. Police were working to ascertain who was responsible. Greenfingers Growing Mixes…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/160029/

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!

Electrifying the North Island Rail Network

At about the same time as Wellington were announcing their new battery electric regional trains, KiwiRail was talking…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/116279/

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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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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