A bit like they did with the CRL, AT have released a video about the new EMUs we will be getting next year.
and so now you all know what I look like which I guess means it gets harder for me to hide.
A bit like they did with the CRL, AT have released a video about the new EMUs we will be getting next year.
and so now you all know what I look like which I guess means it gets harder for me to hide.
Nice work Matt! You manage to come across as knowledgeable but not too much of a trainspotter.
“and so now you all know what I look like which I guess means it gets harder for me to hide.”
Hehe that be true 😉
As for the vid – nice 🙂
Long haired layabout hippy- get a job!!!!
Matt already took George Thorogood’s advice and got his hair cut but now needs a real job…somebody employ the poor sod!
No, nobody employ him please! He’s doing far too much excellent work for the blog and Auckland PT to be wasting his time on earning a living 🙂
How about someone who has a bit of money pay me to run the blog, that could work. Any wealthy readers out there who would like to contribute towards it.
Are you good with numbers? Bill and Gerry could do with a hand.
It’s be fantastic if we could get you on a retainer. Any readers want to chip in, pretty please?
Certainly the best video AT have produced so far; a quantum leap from the slightly cringe-making (I’m looking at you Mr Brown) effort for the CRL. Might have something to do with the evident intelligence of those speaking. Complementing Matt, it was great to see the kids obviously engaged in realising the benefits of electrification. Wonderful stuff.
Absolutely great and when will we see the video exposed to a wider audience on TV ?
Never heard a carriage referred to as a ‘saloon’ before. Conjures images of onboard roulette wheels with a cocktail bar in the corner, en route from Onehunga to Britomart.
Saloon in the term used for the public seating area on a train, as opposed to the drivers cab or other non-public sections you may have in a carriage.
When I hear it I think swinging doors and cowboy shootouts!
You’re a star Matt!
I liked the text floating in mid-air during the city flyover. Very Fringe. But without the alternate universes.
Great video. Just wish it wasn’t two years away, thank you National government.
Electrification has absolutely nothing to do with National, unless you think that it’s a miracle that they didn’t cancel Labour’s earlier decision to, finally, allow it to happen, after four previous National cancellations.
Sorry, I must try to make my sarcasm seem more obvious, I was referring to the revist of the new train’s tender process which stretched out the train arrival date.
you look TOTALLY different from what I had imagined. Good work 🙂
I mean not “good work” in terms of looking different from what I had imagined, good work for what you said on the video.
haha, I was just about to ask that, and out of interest, how did you imagine me looking?
Funnily enough, all the contributors on this blog are decidedly normal looking. At first glance you’d assume we were all normal, rational, non-obsessive people 🙂
With an anorak?
Let’s just say that the real Matt is a bit of an improvement on my mental image
Anyone notice the CGI train @ 0.53, with some design tweaks? Different paint job, circular headlights, and the bodywork at the driver’s cab seemed more streamlined, and not as angular as the mock-up. Is this an inaccurate rendering, or has the design been revised after feedback?
Dollars to donuts they have cribbed that from another CAF project in Europe somewhere.
It has the first cabin marked with 1st and 2nd class areas, (complete with a change in the colour of the seating) – so unless AT are not telling us something about their future expansion into classed travel , I am quite happy to just treat it as a generic render, that is not actually directly related to Auckland at all….
Also note the ‘2014 – 2016’ date. Does this mean we’ll be jealously observing the first EMU be tested for 4 to 6 months before we get a ride?
Another note, Is Britomart to be electrified over summer, or in a mid year (Easter?) shutdown.
Easter shutdown at the earliest.
My understanding is the wiring is going in over Christmas as Easter simply won’t be long enough due to the complex nature of it in the station.
Right! Well, I stand corrected then. Will be nice to see wires coming out of there. Wonder how far out from Britomart the wires will get to by the end of the Christmas shutdown…
I saw them doing some work overhead at Britomart last week, welding in the cantenary supports I thought.
I note from the video at the 50 second mark, that the drivers seat has built-in cup holders….woop de doo!
Don’t underestimate the power of built-in cup holders. We want our drivers full caffeinated when driving.
The cab of some of the locos has a microwave and a kettle! I just hope they operate those things in pairs!
Two appliances on at once? That explains some train delays then.
They might as well have something to do up there as once the CRL is built they’ll be running on auto anyway, hey let’s give them an espresso machine and some barista training….
Now you’re talking. TGV style food bars next? Maybe Snop was offering a good thing when it allowed you to buy more than just the train ticket.
They’ll be putting a fridge in next…
I thought it was odd that they didn’t mention “faster”.
Maybe Matt should run for Council next year !!
I would vote you 🙂
If they had a first class with big armchairs and no children allowed I’d definitely pay more for that.
That should have been a reply to greenwelly at http://greaterakl.wpengine.com/2012/12/18/emu-video/#comment-55054
Yeah bloody children, with their tight skin and their hope.
We should send them all to Australia! Oh wait, they are all going there anyway. Phew!
I hate their hope so much. But we adults will break them eventually, and turn them into us. Resistance is futile.
Excellent video. Well spoken from KR too!
This is another excellent emu video: