Press Release – KiwiRail Trains running between Picton and Christchurch are now using a new stretch of rail track that bypasses the oldest tunnel on the line, bringing greater resilience to the key freight and tourism corridor.
Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 2:24 pm
Trains running between Picton and Christchurch are now
using a new stretch of rail track that bypasses the oldest
tunnel on the line, bringing greater resilience to the key
freight and tourism corridor.
Rail track and sleepers
are removed from Tar Barrel Tunnel, before it is filled with
mudstone and permanently sealed off
KiwiRail, working
with Waka Kotahi NZTA, has built one kilometre of new track
and a new road overpass for State Highway One just south of
Ward in Marlborough to bypass the 108-year-old Tar Barrel
Tunnel.
KiwiRail’s Group Chief Executive Greg Miller
says the work has strengthened the key freight route used to
Press Release – KiwiRail Extra KiwiRail services have helped clear a large backlog of containers filled with imports which were unloaded at the Port of Tauranga after ships were diverted there from Auckland at the peak of the international supply chain crisis. Weve worked …
Extra KiwiRail services have helped clear a large backlog of containers filled with imports which were unloaded at the Port of Tauranga after ships were diverted there from Auckland at the peak of the international supply chain crisis.
“We’ve worked hard to put more freight trains on to this route, which is the busiest in the country, and to increase the volumes we are shifting,” KiwiRail Group Chief Executive Greg Miller says.