Rail electrification doable with funding: KiwiRail

Rail electrification doable with funding: KiwiRail
More passenger services could improve economics of North Island electrification.
Gavin Evans
Increasing rail passenger services would improve the economics of electrifying major North Island lines but the scale of the work could be a challenge given the specialist trades needed and other projects already under way, KiwiRail says.The Climate Change Commission wants to see more use of rail to reduce emissions from trucking and more passenger services as an alternative to private car use for inter-city travel. Its modelling assumes that the rail line from Hamilton to Tauranga, and the rest of the North Island main trunk line between Welli...

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