Trains / June 2013
July 2013 | May 2013-
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Manawatu Veterans Doubles Tournament (Sat Aug 17)
- Table Tennis Wellington
- Himatangi Transport Veterans Graded Open Doubles This annual Veterans event hosted by the Manawatu Veterans Table Tennis Club will be held on Saturday 17th of August. It is open to anyone over the age of 40. Get some friends together and drive up in the same car and make a day of it! It will […]
- Accepted from Table Tennis Wellington blog posts
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Official commissioning of shunt loco Tr189
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- On the morning of Saturday 22 June a small crowd of people braved the tail end of the southerly storm to see our shunt loco Tr 189 officially recommissioned.
- Accepted from Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust news
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Service disruption - Monday 24 June
- Tranz Metro
- Due to last week's storm and subsequent damage to the rail network, there are disruptions to some services this week.
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Kaiwharawhara Station closed until further notice
- Tranz Metro
- Kaiwharawhara Station is closed from 7pm on 13 June 2013 until further notice.
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Kaiwharawhara, Westminster Street, Wadestown, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Fixing a problem: why Wellington needs light rail, and why it’s not too expensive
- Wellington Scoop
- Wellington’s transport model has failed to deliver, and all the recent studies show more of the same is going to make things worse. We need a different approach if we want a vibrant, economically successful city.
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$300 million airport extension and Light Rail for free with every second Mt Vic tunnel built…
- Eye of the Fish
- OK – Hear me out here people. There’s been a lot of kerfuffle over a couple of things this week – one is the proposed $43m strengthening of the old Town Hall, and the other is the proposed $300m extension of the airport. First things first : where have those figures come from? Put them [...]
- Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Kaiwharawhara Station closed until further notice
- Tranz Metro
- Kaiwharawhara Station is closed from 7pm on 13 June 2013 until further notice. Updated Friday 9 August 2013.
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Mainline extension June 8th
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- Our mainline at Maymorn was extended a further two tracksets on Saturday 8 June, now just 10m shy of the pedestrian crossing gates. We're keen to shift the rake of Yc ballast wagons along - to give a little more running track length ahead of our official commissioning of shunt loco Tr189 on 22 June. All photos by Glenn Fitzgerald
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Trust mourns loss of Dame Margaret Shields
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- Dame Margaret Shields passed away on 29 May 2013, former Labour MP for Kapiti, Minister of Customs and Consumer Affairs, Women's Affairs, and Chairperson of the Wellington Regional Council.
- Accepted from Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust news
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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