It was reported yesterday, in the local rag, that the government has finally got around to ordering new trains for our very creaky transport system in the capital. They have vacillated over this for years, the upshot of which is that there will be nearly NZ$300 million spent.
But the rolling stock is falling apart, not to mention the signals and the electrics on the actual tracks. The text service my husband subscribes to for the trains bleeps almost daily with some problem or another on the main commuter track.
He was reminiscing this evening about the age of the London underground trains. When he was travelling from central London to his school in Ealing, he thought the carriages were horrendously old, as most were from the 1930s. This was in the early 1960’s, so perhaps most were 30 years old or more.
The capital’s new rolling stock will appear in 2010 and 2011, replacing stock going back to 1954.
The British Rail slogan of the 1970’s was “This is the age of the train”. In our capital, the carriages would blush to divulge their’s.
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