Written by Richard Worrall, International Railway Journal; October 27, 2017
THE newly-elected Labour-New Zealand First coalition government has announced a $NZ 800m ($US 546.8m) funding commitment to build a new railway line to Marsden Point port in Northland and to upgrade the line between Auckland and Whangarei also in Northland.
The new branch line to the port, which will be about 20km long, will connect with the existing Northland main line about 10km south of Whangarei and will initially mainly carry logs for export from the region’s plantation forests.
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