KiwiRail
Topics
- Interislander replacement ferries planQuiet since 1 Apr 2025
- Aratere ferry retirementQuiet since 12 Jun 2025
- Invercargill fatal train collisionQuiet since 25 Mar 2025
- City Rail Link openingOngoing
- Auckland rail upgrades and bus replacementsQuiet since 3 Feb 2025
- KiwiRail Cook Strait ferry replacementQuiet since 3 Sep 2025
- Auckland mayoral race 2025Quiet since 19 Feb 2025
- Auckland infrastructure investment summit 2025Quiet since 13 Mar 2025
- Matamata College student train deathQuiet since 15 Mar 2025
- City Rail Link preparationsQuiet since 8 Aug 2025
- Kāpiti Line cable disruptionQuiet since 19 Sep 2025
All stories
October 2026
September 2026
- KiwiRail posts $162 million operating surplus despite large tax deficit
- North Taieri woman identified as victim of Invercargill train crash
- Serious Invercargill crash involving car and freight train
- Auckland may need $3.5 billion for road upgrades near City Rail Link
July 2026
- Auckland City Rail Link opening date remains unconfirmed
- Public open days announced for new City Rail Link stations
December 2025
November 2025
- KiwiRail fined after worker fell 10 metres during pole installation
+2 - Repairs to Canterbury rail bridge to begin next week
- Government announces $1.86 billion Cook Strait ferry replacement programme+2
- Person seriously injured in Riccarton workplace accident+1
October 2025
- Train and truck collide at Waikanae railway crossing
- KiwiRail to sell retired Aratere ferry for recycling in India+3
- Over 180 railway sleepers stolen from Whangārei locations
September 2025
- Repairs have not yet begun on Tinwald Viaduct+1
- Kāpiti Line services resume after downed power cable causes disruption
- Pedestrian critically injured after being struck by train in Timaru
August 2025
- Tinwald viaduct closed after vehicle strikes overbridge in Ashburton+2
- Interislander ferry Aratere completes final Cook Strait voyage+4
- Total cost of breaking South Korean ferry contract exceeds $600 million
- KiwiRail pays $144 million to settle Hyundai ferry contract cancellation
- One person seriously injured in Tokoroa train and car collision
- Aratere ferry to make final Cook Strait sailing on 18 August
- Auckland Transport corrects road name error on new rail map
July 2025
- Kāpiti Line train services resume after vehicle hits bridge
- KiwiRail bans 2500 workers from using certain sleep medications
+3 - New KiwiRail director linked to NZ First donation
- Agreements reached for Cook Strait ferry infrastructure and equipment+1
June 2025
- Maintenance machine derailment in Auckland tunnel was preventable
- KiwiRail charged following Aratere ferry grounding near Picton+4
- Aratere ferry passengers stuck overnight after propulsion issue+4
- Freight train and truck collide at Auckland level crossing
May 2025
- Environment Canterbury to lobby for Rangiora to Rolleston commuter train
- KiwiRail proposes 70 job cuts as Aratere ferry retirement approaches+1
- Safety improvements planned for Matamata rail corridor after student's death
- KiwiRail denies price gouging following Aratere ferry retirement
- Interislander ferry Aratere to retire from Cook Strait in August
- Ministers face protesters at Dunedin Hillside Workshops reopening
March 2025
- Winston Peters unveils plan for new Interislander rail ferries+1
- Winston Peters announces plan for two new Cook Strait rail ferries
- KiwiRail apologises for Wellington train service disruptions
- Wellington train services resume after mass signal failure+1
- Man killed in Invercargill train incident identified by police
- Four women escape after car stalls on Hamilton railway crossing
- Police seek witnesses after man killed by train in Invercargill+2
- Person dies after being hit by freight train in Invercargill+1
- KiwiRail failed to follow recommendation after Matamata student train death+3
- International firms to attend Auckland investment summit
- Car and rail maintenance vehicle collide at Matamata level crossing
- Government sets aside $300 million for cancelled ferry contracts+4
February 2025
- Two men arrested for allegedly riding on a moving freight train
- Closure of Ava Rail Bridge walkway postponed until end of year
- Logging trucks removed from Napier-Taihape Road following safety concerns
- Wayne Brown denies claims he would ask deputy to step down
- Passenger trains return to newly electrified Pukekohe Station
January 2025
- Covid-19 brain fog likely caused South Island train near miss
- Logging trains return to Napier-Palmerston North line
- Car crashes on railway tracks after fleeing police near Levin
- Buses replace Auckland trains during critical rail network upgrades
- Poll shows many New Zealanders want rail-enabled Interislander ferries
- Tawhai Tunnel near Reefton to reopen after eight month repair