nr758123
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I have just watched that, it was excellent, it was interesting to note that the areas around Auckland and Wellington, plus parts in the centre seemed to have overhead electric wiring and other parts did not.
I thought it quite impressive that such a lightly used line had been electrified. Right on cue, the narrator said that the line carried 110 trains per week. That’s slightly fewer than Plymouth to Gunnislake.
Contrast that with England, where our useless incompetent government has spent nearly 9 years failing to decide whether it’s worth bothering electrifying a route between two insignificant places called Manchester and Leeds and which carries something like 15 times as many trains.