Rebuilding Vogel’s Rail System

Rebuilding Vogel’s Rail System

New DM Class locomotives will bring vastly superior fuel economy, hauling power, and have cabs at both end to simplify yard movements – all contributing to lower costs to serve customers and lifting schedule reliability.

Rebuilding Vogel's Rail System

The rail system is being rebuilt to the benefit of the national economy with a new maintenance hub in Christchurch and a full fleet of replacement locomotives for the entire South Island, Rail Minister Winston Peters says. “The South Island has hauled goods from the hinterland to coastal ports since the first track was laid in Christchurch in 1863 and vastly expanded by Julius Vogel from the 1870s, and we are rebuilding rail for the benefit of t…