Electric Rail Tender Announcement A Year Away

Posted by Jon C in electrificationNov 30th, 2009 | 2 responses

trackThe tender process for Auckland’s electric trains will take almost a year.

KiwiRail has outlined its timetable. It is starting a review of the information that has already been gathered and then get a Request for Tender document into the market place around January. It will award a tender before the end of next year.

While it sounds a long time, the tender process takes this length and it will still enable the trains to come on board in 2013.



2 Responses to “Electric Rail Tender Announcement A Year Away”

  1. James says:
    November 30, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    As long as we get it right and choose the best option – it should take as long as it needs to within the timing already set out (ie 2013).

  2. Jeremy Harris says:
    November 30, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    Methinks the wires are going to be up long before the trains to run underneath them are delivered…

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