KiwiRail is starting negotiations for a new funding package it hopes will run from 2017 to 2020 and is looking for a small number

The Prime Minister yesterday took a tour around a busy railway station which doesn't yet exist.

The port wants to give Waikato exporters better access to international markets.

If only the fast lane of this stupid motorway was simply removed and replaced with a train that had wifi? I could have got useful work done and arrived far quicker, writes Sam Judd.

For nearly 100 years politicians have been talking about an inner city rail link. But for 100 years that's all it's been: talk, writes Rodney Hide.

John Key's intention to fast-track the $1.25 billion East-West Connection and make it a project of national significance has been welcomed by transport and infrastructure groups.

The Prime Minister's reading of the politics of the issue is an implicit tribute to the effort of the departing mayor, Len Brown, as it was three years ago.

Transdev Australasia, in association with Hyundai Rotem is the preferred operator for next year.

Rail rides are still alive thanks to dedicated societies, clubs and businesses that keep trains chugging, Kelly Lynch heads out on the rails.

For a city striving to be "world class", forcing the inter-city rail service out of Britomart to a jerry-built shipping container "kiosk", 1.4km away in the old shunting yards, is bizarre, writes Brian Rudman.

It is thought to be one of the highest emotional harm payments awarded in this country.

Sharp contrasts between Auckland and Wellington rail costs are blamed by a consultant on differences in each city's passenger services.

Auckland Transport is negotiating with four parties on the last remaining properties standing in the way of its $2.5 billion City Rail Link.

However, it had a much better 12 months to June 30 than a year earlier, improving EBITA 17 per cent to $91 million.

KiwiRail is defending an almost threefold Onehunga ground rent hike, saying it must take a commercial approach.

Auckland Transport is taking legal action to force owners of Eden Terrace properties to sell up for the $2.5 billion City Rail Link.

The national rail network is an asset that should survive and be put to its best-possible use.

In a $14 billion transport budget a $100 million a year for rail to reduce road congestion is very sustainable, writes Richard Prebble.

A teenager charged after train surfing in Wellington has been made to meet a woman who lost her limbs in a train crash.

Two regular public transport users — Roger Hall on the buses and Barry Jenkins on the trains — share the trials of recent rides.

Transport planners can do so much more with wheels on roads that it is hard to fathom their attachment to iron rails, writes John Roughan.

Months of delays and cancellations on the city rail network have brought an acknowledgment of problems from Auckland Transport - coupled with a warning that it's not over yet.

Things often get worse before they get better, but for long-suffering Auckland rail passengers the prelude to electric trains is beyond a joke.

A 21-year-old learner driver caught the attention of police when he decide to take his birthday present for a joy-ride on the railway line at Abbotsford.

Campaigners want Auckland Transport to grant rail services from Swanson to Waitakere a stay of execution.

Britomart users may soon have to jostle their way through crowded platforms to get on to backed-up rush-hour trains.

KiwiRail is gaining $400 million, but youth organisation Generation Zero is disappointed no extra funds are on offer to get more Aucklanders on trains.