Trains now running for 27 Sept game...
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Tranzmetro were due to have no trains coming into Wellington Station all day Sunday, but after 'reminding' them about the Nix game got following positive response - ups to them I suppose...
Vicki,
To ensure that there is adequate transport to the Phoenix game we have decided to restart train services at 2pm on Sunday afternoon. This will mean the usual train services will be operating before and after the game.
We will be amending our customer communications in the next day or so to reflect this change.
Regards
Graeme Mowday
Tranz Metro
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Tranzmetro were due to have no trains coming into Wellington Station all day Sunday, but after 'reminding' them about the Nix game got following positive response - ups to them I suppose...
Vicki,
To ensure that there is adequate transport to the Phoenix game we have decided to restart train services at 2pm on Sunday afternoon. This will mean the usual train services will be operating before and after the game.
We will be amending our customer communications in the next day or so to reflect this change.
Regards
Graeme Mowday
Tranz Metro
woops sorry wrong log on
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Good to see a company who admits when they've made a mistake and amends it to help its customers.
Tranzmetro gets a
Tranzmetro gets a
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Must be a real bugger for the guys trying to upgrade the rails, but the trains really do need to be running when there's an event on at the stadium.
They should just cancel the trains Saturday night instead...
They should just cancel the trains Saturday night instead...
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Its a nice change to see them not screwing us over again.
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I think they might be more concerned with all the $$$$ they will miss out on if they are not running during a stadium event.
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i thought the Nix were going to sort trains?
Founder
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i thought the Nix were going to sort trains?
Who cares as long as they're sorted? Let us humble fans think we have a voice
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Didn't even realise they weren't running... !
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Why were they not going to be running? I checked a couple of weeks back as I need to get a train from Upper Hutt that day and the timetable said there were trains every half hour?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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Why were they not going to be running? I checked a couple of weeks back as I need to get a train from Upper Hutt that day and the timetable said there were trains every half hour?
They're doing work on the tracks into Wellington Station; adding a 3rd line in for morning and evening peak, and upgrading the electrical wiring.
Good work by KiwiRail to get it all sorted.
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Glad it is sorted - wasn't anything on the website as far as I could see, timetable was all intact!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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I think the biggest factor is that they don't have enough buses to deal with the increased load.
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Still they have come to the party and big 
to them for doing that. Usually Sundays are track maintenence days.
to them for doing that. Usually Sundays are track maintenence days.Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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good thing they did fix that up - theyve been terrible lately so they really need to be making amends
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Kiwirail till I die (or get that RS6)
14/11/09
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Thank the fact it's now KIWIrail. Toll wouldn't give a sh*t.
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On a day-to-day basis, Toll ran the rails alot better than the government have.
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Thank the fact it's now KIWIrail. Toll wouldn't give a sh*t.[/QUOTE]
You certainly paid for it considering the grossly inflated price that Labour paid to buy it back.
If you divide the loss made on the sale by the NZ population it works out to about $74 each.
[QUOTE]The final valuation of KiwiRail was $369 million � more than half the price the Government paid for it.
The Labour government bought TranzRail from Toll on July 1 last year for $690m. A provisional valuation in the government financial statements in September 2008 put the value at $442m.
Today Transport Minister Steven Joyce said the final valuation by PriceWaterhouseCoopers was $388.29m.
A Treasury report said a fair value for KiwiRail at the purchase date would have been $369.54m.
�This results in a final financial loss on acquisition of Toll NZ Ltd of $320m,� the report said.
You certainly paid for it considering the grossly inflated price that Labour paid to buy it back.
If you divide the loss made on the sale by the NZ population it works out to about $74 each.
[QUOTE]The final valuation of KiwiRail was $369 million � more than half the price the Government paid for it.
The Labour government bought TranzRail from Toll on July 1 last year for $690m. A provisional valuation in the government financial statements in September 2008 put the value at $442m.
Today Transport Minister Steven Joyce said the final valuation by PriceWaterhouseCoopers was $388.29m.
A Treasury report said a fair value for KiwiRail at the purchase date would have been $369.54m.
�This results in a final financial loss on acquisition of Toll NZ Ltd of $320m,� the report said.
The Government has NO business running a rail network.
Having said that, good on Tranzrail for not mucking around and sorting this out for us
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On a day-to-day basis, Toll ran the rails alot better than the government have.
It may appear that way, Michael,
but if your observation is based on the frequent stoppages we've experienced recently in Wellington, that can fairly and squarely be blamed on Toll and previous owners for gross deferred maintenance, running down of rolling stock, and bleeding the rail system (and us kiwis) dry..
but thats another forum.
Happy the trains are running next Sunday.Go the Nix!
Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!
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Not to mention that instead of that "dividend" of $74 each if it wasn't bought we would be paying a subsidy of a whole lot more, for a whole lot longer, to Toll to undermaintain and underinvest. Does this need to be taken "off topic"? 
14/11/09
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Yeah definitely "off topic", especially since as soon as Hard News sees this he'll be saying the Govt should be paying for turn of the century steam engines on a line that runs the length of the country.
Addicks, whether you think the Govt should be running the rail network or not you MUST concede that overpaying $320M for it was a c0ck-up, surely?!
Addicks, whether you think the Govt should be running the rail network or not you MUST concede that overpaying $320M for it was a c0ck-up, surely?!
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Well done Vickmeist for actually doing something for the Phoenix, have a star 
and a couple of applauses
and a couple of applauses
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Yeah definitely "off topic", especially since as soon as Hard News sees this he'll be saying the Govt should be paying for turn of the century steam engines on a line that runs the length of the country.
Addicks, whether you think the Govt should be running the rail network or not you MUST concede that overpaying $320M for it was a c0ck-up, surely?!
Addicks, whether you think the Govt should be running the rail network or not you MUST concede that overpaying $320M for it was a c0ck-up, surely?!
They talked Toll down from a much higher price (Toll wanted $1bn), and the price that's been mooted is the asset valuation, as far as I gather. That doesn't really reflect what the business is worth. And at least we're not paying subsidies to Toll in return for getting shafted.
We could have nationalised it at that lower valuation, if that's what you mean, but some folk would have got antsy 
14/11/09
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Oi Trainspotters!
Off Topic!
C-Diddy2009-09-18 11:58:44"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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bad pun. Truly terrible.
yet...
Allegedly
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My puns seem to be taking their TOLL on some...
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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My puns seem to be taking their TOLL on some...
wrong thread.
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News is right, this thread needs to get back on track...
Congrats to Tranzmetro for saving all them wages that you would have paid for the upkeep of the rail network to provide Wellington Phoenix fans the opportunity to use your service to attend this vital sporting fixture!
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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This thread seems to have gone off the rails and has hit the buffers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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Lets not derail the topic eh? Best we maintain the line......of discussion we should be on then.....or we'll get shunted to some other forum......now where was I?? seem to have lost my......train of thought!!!
boom boom.
RedGed2009-09-18 20:36:27
boom boom.
RedGed2009-09-18 20:36:27
Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!
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Think you've got ideas above your station RedGed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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Have I been sent to the sheds...aw ref!!....thought I had the goods ...should be able to express yourself freely I say...unit the boss anyway, Steve-O
Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHWUzau5_Bo
"Phoenix till they lose"
Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion.
Genuine opinion: FTFFA
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Have I been sent to the sheds...aw ref!!....thought I had the goods ...should be able to express yourself freely I say...unit the boss anyway, Steve-O
I really freight you right now.
I'll get my coat 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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