The first of 66 new high-tech, low-emission trains were welcomed to New Zealand by Transport Minister Simeon Brown this week.
Designed to replace the country’s ageing, no-longer fit for purpose National MPs, Minister Brown said the new trains would replace older, ageing locomotives not fit for purpose.
The locos are built in Spain, where loco doesn’t mean what locals here think it means and will arrive in batches next year to be ready for service in 2026 where they’ll make very little contribution to New Zealand’s carbon footprint.
“That’s because by then we’ll have completely ripped up all the country’s rail network, and turned all freight over to private trucking firms,” the Minister might have said. “Because the road transport associations have supported the National Party over many decades, much more than those lefties and unionists running the railways.”
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