2024-09-26 Radio New Zealand : Northland railway line reopens after 20 month closure for rebuild

Last updated 26th of September  2024.  (Established 2011)
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2024-06-19 Radio New Zealand : (audio)
 Northland's Railway to Nowhere  
2024-03-4 Northern Advocate : 
Weather repairs on Northland’s sole rail line now chugging forward
To do now : https://www.nrc.govt.nz/your-council/have-your-say/review-of-regional-land-transport-plan/

2023-04-20   See Grow Northland Rail's submission to the Northland Regional Council  on  Whangarei Commuter Rail

2023-02-24 :

 The Northern Advocate : Is it time to turn to rail ?

Inquiry into the future of inter-regional passenger rail in New Zealand

( Submissions closed on 21st of October 2022 )

20220407 ( NZ Herald ) Government to spend $550 Million on Northland Railway, including spur to Northport.

A  response published in the Northern Advocate 20220412 : Northland rail campaigners welcome $550M for spur to Marsden Pt and other rail work

Off the tracks: New Zealand's lost railway network

Dr André Brett and Sam van der Weerden have just published their book  'Can't Get There from Here: New Zealand's Shrinking Passenger Rail Network, 1920-2020, traces the expansion and - more commonly - the contraction of New Zealand's passenger rail network over the last century.

The $207,000,000 upgrade of the North Auckland Line has been completed and freight trains started running between Auckland and Whangarei again on the 11th of January 2021. 

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4th of June 2021 Northport gets a long-awaited rail link

Northport to get rail link at expense of new state highway

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