AOR has welcomed Chris Cordwell to our team. Chris is a senior rail infrastructure professional with 20 years of international experience spanning rail operations, asset management, and major project delivery. He has joined AOR in a new role as Rail Infrastructure Operations Manager. This role will be responsible for improving
Auckland One Rail is pleased to announce the signing of a long-term Technical Support and Spares Supply Agreement (TSSSA) with CAF New Zealand. Jarryd Sisley our GM Engineering and Assets and Brendon Jones, CAF General Manager New Zealand have been working tirelessly to agree for CAF to have a continued
Husband and wife team Vince Ah Kuoi and Danielle Ah Kuoi featured in our recent quarterly awards presentation in April – Vince as a recipient of our newly created Operational Excellence award and Danielle as a presenter in her new role as Train Service Manager.Awards were also presented by Dave
We’ve recently being introducing our new values across our depots and sites. Where did these new values come from? We held workshops over several weeks with our frontline teams and crews – based on their feedback our new values are: Safety, Integrity, Respect and One Team. CEO Martin Kearney says
The AOR team had an epic day at Round the Bays on Sunday, 2 March. Nearly a couple of hundred of our staff and their families donned our “Train With Us” t-shirts for the 8.4km run/jog/walk and then celebrated with a fantastic bbq at the end. Thanks to the organising
Meet Grant Dowie, the driver who drove the first CRL test train through the tunnels on this historic journey. City Rail Link spoke to him just before he made the 3.45-kilometre-long inaugural journey south from Waitematā Station (Britomart) under central Auckland past the new underground stations at Te Waihorotiu and
Wednesday, 12 February 2025 will go down in Auckland’s history books as the day the first City Rail Link test train, EMU AM836, was driven through the city’s underground tunnels. The train was driven by Operational Readiness Lead/Locomotive Engineer Grant Dowie, supported by other members of AOR’s CRL team including
On Monday, 3 February electric trains ran for the first time from the newly opened Pukekohe Station. CEO Martin Kearney and COO Gavin Panter travelled on the first EMU from Pukekohe to Waitematā (Britomart), with driver Dion Lynch and TM Cameron. Other ELT members took the first EMU out of
