{"id":659,"date":"2023-10-20T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T03:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=a236be38108c6e189034fb38c1d38420"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T03:19:03","slug":"te-huia-train-on-track-for-additional-services-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Te Huia train on track for additional services in the new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Additional off-peak services for the Te Huia train service originally scheduled to start in April this year will now start in February, Waikato Regional Council and KiwiRail have announced.<\/p>\n<p>The new services will include a third daily return service on Thursdays and Fridays, where demand has been highest, and a second return service on Saturdays between Hamilton and Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>The new timetable is set to start on February 8 next year.<\/p>\n<p>Waikato regional councillor and Future Proof Public Transport Subcommittee deputy chair Angela Strange said it was an exciting step-change for passengers.<\/p>\n<p>t the moment there are no facilities for Te Huia passengers, except for some undercover seats which are only available when the train is at the platform.<\/p>\n<p>KiwiRail is transforming its old signals building, further along the platform, into a station building for Te Huia and the Northern Explorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional off-peak services for the Te Huia train service originally scheduled to start in April this year will now start in February, Waikato Regional Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}