PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN / REPORT: ANI NGAWHIKA
KiwiRail chief capital planning and asset development officer David Gordon said the wagons were assembled earlier this year at the new Hillside workshops in South Dunedin.
The workshops were undergoing a $105 million redevelopment this year.
Mr Gordon said his team at the workshops had already assembled about 100 wagons.
"They come in the south end [of the workshops] just as frames and then come out the north end, heading towards the Oval", he said.
The container flat top "IL" wagons were built by KiwiRail with parts provided by its supplier UGL Rail.
The wagons were used around the country as a part of its general wagon fleet for transporting freight — mainly in the form of containers or other "TEU and FEU standardised units".
