{"id":456227,"date":"2026-06-17T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=e3099d5d871602b8e4b1a71e79a62ca1"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:55:00","slug":"kiwirail-now-has-three-more-stadler-dm-locomotives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227","title":{"rendered":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,12539,180],"tags":[19448],"class_list":["post-456227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rail-news","category-railfreight","category-rolling-stock","tag-railmarket"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"gobstopper\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"1EIWGZ5FoylKQrO3pqls-2hXlDXKIP1lffdWZCVV0V4\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO Pro (AIOSEO) 4.9.8\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"VibeWire Magazine - Your Alternate News Source for Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-17T11:55:00+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-17T11:55:00+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@VibewireCentral\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@VibewireCentral\" \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"aioseo-schema\">\n\t\t\t{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BlogPosting\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227#blogposting\",\"name\":\"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine\",\"headline\":\"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?author=20#author\"},\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/Screenshot-2024-01-07-at-2.32.21\\u202fpm.png\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/#articleImage\",\"width\":1028,\"height\":930},\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-17T21:55:00+10:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-17T21:55:00+10:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227#webpage\"},\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227#webpage\"},\"articleSection\":\"Rail News, Railfreight, Rolling Stock, RailMarket\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227#breadcrumblist\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au#listItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?cat=47#listItem\",\"name\":\"Rail News\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?cat=47#listItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rail News\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?cat=47\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227#listItem\",\"name\":\"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives\"},\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au#listItem\",\"name\":\"Home\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227#listItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives\",\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?cat=47#listItem\",\"name\":\"Rail News\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"VibreWire Online\",\"description\":\"Your Alternate News Source for Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/Screenshot-2024-01-07-at-2.32.21\\u202fpm.png\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227\\\/#organizationLogo\",\"width\":1028,\"height\":930},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227\\\/#organizationLogo\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/VibewireCentral\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?author=20#author\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?author=20\",\"name\":\"gobstopper\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227#authorImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/edfb9eed042fb9f8994142e82aa8e900db86f4e6c1213d86473dd1251c9dffc7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"gobstopper\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227\",\"name\":\"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine\",\"description\":\"KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?p=456227#breadcrumblist\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?author=20#author\"},\"creator\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/?author=20#author\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-17T21:55:00+10:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-17T21:55:00+10:00\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/\",\"name\":\"VibreWire Online\",\"description\":\"Your Alternate News Source for Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vibewire.com.au\\\/#organization\"}}]}\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro -->\r\n\t\t<title>KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine<\/title>\n\n","aioseo_head_json":{"title":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine","description":"KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.","canonical_url":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227","robots":"max-image-preview:large","keywords":"","webmasterTools":{"google-site-verification":"1EIWGZ5FoylKQrO3pqls-2hXlDXKIP1lffdWZCVV0V4","miscellaneous":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227#blogposting","name":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine","headline":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?author=20#author"},"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/#organization"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-01-07-at-2.32.21\u202fpm.png","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/#articleImage","width":1028,"height":930},"datePublished":"2026-06-17T21:55:00+10:00","dateModified":"2026-06-17T21:55:00+10:00","inLanguage":"en-AU","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227#webpage"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227#webpage"},"articleSection":"Rail News, Railfreight, Rolling Stock, RailMarket"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227#breadcrumblist","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au#listItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=47#listItem","name":"Rail News"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=47#listItem","position":2,"name":"Rail News","item":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=47","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227#listItem","name":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives"},"previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au#listItem","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227#listItem","position":3,"name":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives","previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=47#listItem","name":"Rail News"}}]},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/#organization","name":"VibreWire Online","description":"Your Alternate News Source for Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything","url":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-01-07-at-2.32.21\u202fpm.png","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227\/#organizationLogo","width":1028,"height":930},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227\/#organizationLogo"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/VibewireCentral"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?author=20#author","url":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?author=20","name":"gobstopper","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227#authorImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/edfb9eed042fb9f8994142e82aa8e900db86f4e6c1213d86473dd1251c9dffc7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"gobstopper"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227","name":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine","description":"KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.","inLanguage":"en-AU","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/#website"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227#breadcrumblist"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?author=20#author"},"creator":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?author=20#author"},"datePublished":"2026-06-17T21:55:00+10:00","dateModified":"2026-06-17T21:55:00+10:00"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/","name":"VibreWire Online","description":"Your Alternate News Source for Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything","inLanguage":"en-AU","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/#organization"}}]},"og:locale":"en_US","og:site_name":"VibeWire Magazine - Your Alternate News Source for Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything","og:type":"article","og:title":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine","og:description":"KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.","og:url":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227","article:published_time":"2026-06-17T11:55:00+00:00","article:modified_time":"2026-06-17T11:55:00+00:00","twitter:card":"summary_large_image","twitter:site":"@VibewireCentral","twitter:title":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives - VibeWire Magazine","twitter:description":"KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.","twitter:creator":"@VibewireCentral"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"456227","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":null,"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":null,"og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"BlogPosting","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":null,"robots_max_videopreview":null,"robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":null,"local_seo":null,"seo_analyzer_scan_date":"2026-06-17 13:14:09","breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"open_ai":null,"ai":null,"created":"2026-06-17 13:07:36","updated":"2026-06-17 13:14:09"},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=47\" title=\"Rail News\">Rail News<\/a>\n<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\tKiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives\n<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au"},{"label":"Rail News","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=47"},{"label":"KiwiRail now has three more Stadler DM locomotives","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=456227"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456229,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456227\/revisions\/456229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}