Dunedin's Hillside Engineering Workshops will be closed if they are not sold, a KiwiRail report states, prompting a visit to the facility by Labour leader David Shearer.
Heads should roll at KiwiRail after the state-owned company imported wooden sleepers infested with fungi not found in New Zealand, minority party New Zealand First says.
KiwiRail's financial report for the year ended June showed glimmers of hope for an eventual turnaround in the rail network operator's fortunes, but chief executive Jim Quinn realises there is still a way to go.
KiwiRail bought 1970s technology when it bought new locomotives from China, but now has an opportunity to put matters right, one of its former long-serving senior engineers says.
The Government's decision to buy locomotives designed and manufactured in China is a "debacle", Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says.
Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran has come out swinging today after news that the brakes on 500 Chinese-built freight wagons ordered by KiwiRail had to be replaced before they could hit the tracks last year.
More than one in every five South Island jobs at KiwiRail's infrastructure and engineering division is likely to go, the state-owned enterprise has confirmed.
Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says she still has questions about KiwiRail's faulty Chinese-made locomotives, despite receiving some answers in Parliament yesterday.
Kiwirail's 45 infrastructure and engineering staff in Dunedin are yet to be told whether their jobs will remain, as the state-owned enterprise considers cutting up to 220 jobs by October.
KiwiRail plans to cut up to 220 jobs from its engineering department as a cost-cutting measure after poor trading conditions and the effect of the Christchurch earthquakes. It is proposing to...
Kiwirail is considering expressions of interest for the purchase of Dunedin's Hillside Workshops.
Kiwirail is planning to undertake maintenance along the rail line between Milburn and Milton, picking up, cleaning and re-depositing ballast (rail formation material) in the next few weeks.
KiwiRail has asked the Otago Regional Transport Committee to be involved in a feasibility study for freighting logs by rail rather than road.
Dunedin's city leaders have officially put up a unified front to do whatever it takes to smoothly roll through the sale of Hillside Engineering.
KiwiRail is seeking expressions of interest for the sale of Dunedin's Hillside Workshops.
The Government and KiwiRail have been accused of showing disrespect and disregard for Dunedin with the unexpected announcement the KiwiRail Hillside Engineering was for sale.
KiwiRail is slashing the number of Overlander train trips between Auckland and Wellington and will revamp the service.
A petition to save Hillside jobs has been rejected by a parliamentary select committee.
Kiwirail is seeking to rehire six rail engineers to work at its Hillside Workshops in South Dunedin on fixed-term contracts.
KiwiRail's controversial decision to have its new freight wagons made in China may have backfired.
