Following the election of the fifth National government in November 2008, the investment programme initiated by the previous administration was suspended pending a review.
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A couple of weeks after the new company was officially launched, the State Owned Enterprises Minister Trevor Mallard announced that the government was investigating the possibility of assembling new locomotives at Hutt Workshops, then operated by United Group Rail, from imported parts.
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