{"id":15705,"date":"2026-07-13T23:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15705"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:39:36","slug":"kiwirail-reopens-south-island-rail-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15705","title":{"rendered":"KiwiRail reopens South Island rail line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and image from KiwiRail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Auckland, New Zealand, July 14, 2026 &#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>KiwiRail teams have worked hard under challenging circumstances to successfully reopen the rail line between Picton and Christchurch following its closure last week due to damage caused by the bad weather.<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/span>The heavy rain had caused subsidence which in turn resulted in scouring by the Conway River beneath part of the Main North Line rail corridor between Cheviot and\u00a0Kaik\u014dura, forcing its closure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from KiwiRail Auckland, New Zealand, July 14, 2026 &#8211;\u00a0KiwiRail teams have worked hard under challenging circumstances to successfully reopen the rail line between Picton and Christchurch following its closure last week due to damage caused by the bad weather.\u00a0 \u00a0The heavy rain had caused subsidence which in turn resulted in scouring by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5637,4552,13618,5992,2203,5676,10355,10169,10617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-cargo-news","category-communications-news","category-economic-news","category-finance-news","category-international-news","category-diversity","category-news","category-pacifica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15708,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions\/15708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}