Museum-piece all ready to roll

Electric commuter trains built in 1949 are been brought into service to ease conjestion !
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4682790a23918.html

David Benton wrote:Electric commuter trains built in 1949 are been brought into service to ease conjestion !
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4682790a23918.html

I doubt if there is anything older than 1965 in Britain, and almost everything is no more than 15 years old.

The long distance carriages are overhauled ( mutliple times ) from the same era . The alst new passenger equipment would have been brought in the 1980's . though the rebuilt brutush rail mk 2's are basically totally new .

David Benton wrote:The long distance carriages are overhauled ( mutliple times ) from the same era . The last new passenger equipment would have been brought in the 1980's . though the rebuilt British rail mk 2's are basically totally new .

The oldest carriages are the Isle of Wight electric trains that are London Underground tube stock, possibly 1938.

Hmmm.... old stuff...

The still standard heavy rail single-level passenger car operated by Deutsche Bahn - the Bn-/ABn-type - were built between 1961 and 1980. Although only few are still in original condition of course.

There's a private railway company near here that still operates two MAN railcars in regular daily operations - from a series built between 1955 and 1969. Both for passenger operations and as locomotives for end-point cargo traffic on the routes operated by this company.

Although most really old stuff was replaced in the 80s in Germany, especially when the BR628 diesel railcar was introduced, now the standard railcar in Germany.

Like half of all locomotive types in operation in Germany stem from a mid-60s buying spree, rest mostly 80s to 90s. The older Type 110 (1955) are also still in limited operation though.

“Part of that solution is a fleet of 70 electric trains being built in Korea. They will be brought into service from 2010, at a cost of $210 million.”

Does anyone have any info on these Korean trains being built?

Welcome to the worldwide forum Steve . You make a good point . details of these new trains are almost secretive . Maybe there is something on the wellington regional councils website about them .
In the days of "rails Magazine , they would have no doubt have had details / drawings of them , but there is abit of a void there now .

this is all i could find on there . there is a photo , but wether its conceptual or the real thing i don't know .
but at least they have a name !
http://www.metlink.org.nz/story26413.php

Thanks David, that’s about all I could find on them too after doing my own search, a bit more here;

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... order.html

And here;

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... rakes.html


The proposed ones for Auckland are accompanied by a photo of the new Transperth units which are built by Bombardier. I always wonder if there is some inside knowledge in this reference or if someone just needed a picture of a ‘train’ for the article. (Page 16)

http://www.arta.co.nz/assets/arta%20pub ... 202006.pdf

It also makes me wonder if the same contactors (Rotem of South Korea and Mitsui of Japan) will be used for the Auckland units or if they will indeed be put up to a fair tender or if it will be swayed by political intervention as has happened in the past?

good links to the good old railway gazette . i was surprised to hear the govt is proposing to buy "new " british rail mk 11 stock for the long sitane rains too .That was news to me .
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view ... rowth.html

As for the politics , well maybe the days of trading sheep meat with eastern bloc countries short of hard currencies are over . But i guess we have had a pretty good run out of the ganz mavag units overall .