A 5.6-magnitude earthquake on January 5 gave South Island New Zealanders a sharp reminder of the devastating quakes which damaged much of Christchurch in 2010 and 2011. It also brought much of the ...

A scenic New Zealand train plans to close its open-air compartments because of unsafe behavior from travelers taking pictures. KiwiRail’s Great Journeys of New Zealand, which transports tourists ...

KiwiRail will resume the operations of the TranzAlpine train service after it was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Credit: Aleksejs Ivanovs New Zealand state-owned enterprise KiwiRail has ...

The new rail maintenance facility in Christchurch is expected to support the future for South Island rail. Credit: Hin und wieder gibts mal was via Pixabay. The New Zealand Government has provided an ...

A newly-appointed KiwiRail board director is associated with a company which donated to NZ First. Scott O’Donnell is one of the four directors of Dynes Transport Tapanui, which donated $20,000 to NZ ...

Minister for Rail Winston Peters says new appointments to the KiwiRail board bring commercial, freight and rail experience and a ‘can do’ attitude. “We want railways to be successful for New Zealand ...

KiwiRail’s new North Island train service, which will begin service in the middle of this year, has been given a new name – Northern Explorer. The name was announced at the TRENZ conference, where New ...

The appointment of Scott O’Donnell to the KiwiRail board will bolster its freight expertise Minister for Rail Winston Peters says. “Railways have no shortage of potential for New Zealand, and we ...

New Zealand's state-owned KiwiRail has issued a request for proposal to find a preferred shipyard to build two new RoPax ferries for operator Interislander. The international tender follows a NZ$400 ...

The vast majority of the bridges concerned are replaced in-line, in that they are being replaced in exactly the same location as the existing structure. New piers are built within the live corridor ...