{"id":2154,"date":"2025-05-15T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:41:58","slug":"kiwirail-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Kiwirail Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"144\" class=\"wp-image-2155\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Grinder.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Grinder.jpg 837w, https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Grinder-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Grinder-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Grinder-600x432.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>KiwiRail\u2019s rail grinder is scheduled to be in Wellington as part of their routine maintenance. This equipment is brought to the region every couple of years to help extend the lifespan of the rail infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiwirail advise that &#8220;Throughout May and June, the rail grinder will be operating across the region to reprofile turnouts (where trains switch from one track to another) and newly laid rail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that the work will be conducted during nighttime hours when trains are not in operation. The grinder doesn\u2019t work in one place for very long, but we do apologise in advance for any noise disturbance caused while we work at each site&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G0H66KX3E0s?si=H8lVnVpdHSv_uLw5\">here<\/a>\u00a0to view a short video of the rail grinder in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KiwiRail\u2019s rail grinder is scheduled to be in Wellington as part of their routine maintenance. This equipment is brought to the region every couple of years to help extend the lifespan of the rail infrastructure. Kiwirail advise that &#8220;Throughout May &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/?p=2154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}