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Onehunga Gets Busy
Promising signs Onehunga is going like a rocket. Yesterday someone using it reported 30-40 people waiting at Onehunga. This afternoon I took a random afternoon service...
Onehunga Discovers Trains!
Here’s my favourite email of the day. I had lots of emails before Onehunga opened from people asking questions about train travel as they had not been on one...
Time For Airport Rail Campaign
As I predicted, the media virtually ignored rail’s big day on Saturday with scant coverage of the opening of Onehunga attended by hundreds of excited people...
Onehunga History Nice Touch
The Grafton station-type idea of putting graphics alongside the Onehunga station to deter graffiti, is a very nice touch. The Onehunga station’s exterior fenceline...
Onehunga Trains 1st Day Popular!
At 1pm today, the new Onehunga platform was crowded with commuters waiting for a train -and the park and ride was already full as people tried out the new Onehunga...
First Train Into Onehunga
A familiar Veolia train arrived at Onehunga about 10.30am this morning as the first official train to use the Onehunga line, re-activated after 37 years. The Mainline...
Pics: Onehunga Celebrates In Style
Set against a back drop of blustery winds and the odd shower , a Veolia train filled with guests celebrating the reopening of the Onehunga branch line rolled into...
Airport Rail Gets Applause
ARC chair Mike Lee today drew applause at the opening of the Onehunga train station this morning when he mentioned airport rail and the public hunger for it. Auckland...
Onehunga Opens Full Coverage
Onehunga certainly knows how to turn on a festive occasion. Despite blustery winds and overcast skies, locals, assisted by the local Dolphin theatre and organisers...
Welcome Te Papapa, Penrose 3
Welcome Te Papapa and Penrose 3 train stations to the rail network. Te Papapa can be accessed from Mays Rd, or Captain Springs Rd or Malvern Rd. Penrose 3 is...
Free Onehunga Steam Rides
Onehunga’s train station will be officially opened by transport minister Steven Joyce on Saturday morning -and the public will later be able to score free...
Onehunga Opens Sat
In less than a week - Saturday morning- a steam train will be pulling into the Onehunga Mall platforms to herald the re-establishment of an Onehunga line. The...
Onehunga Opening Details
An exciting PT September ahead - two big openings at Onehunga and New Lynn. Onehunga’s grand official opening will be on Saturday September 18. A steam...
Onehunga Foreshore Move Confirmed
Funding for the Onehunga foreshore restoration has been confirmed. The $28m funding agreement signed today by Auckland City Council and the NZTA will help enable...
Photo: Onehunga Trains Return
The train horns could be heard far up Onehunga Mall beyond Arthur St as could the rumble of a train. Shoppers looked at each other in amazement. The Onehunga commuter...
Stopping Onehunga Tagging
The graffiti busters were at the new Onehunga station this afternoon to try to prevent further tagging of the shiny new platforms at Onehunga Mall. Already sections...
Pics: Onehunga Close Up
Here is how Onehunga railway train station platforms are looking today close up . It’s exactly nine weeks from when commuter trains will be be leaving these...
Photos:2Short Onehunga Today
It’s been dubbed a rapper-sounding name - 2Short - but Onehunga’s railway train station platform at the end of Onehunga Mall is fast taking...
Onehunga Short-Changed
How typical. Why do we always get short-changed by cost-saving solutions that will never take us into the future. From the original harbour bridge design to Newmarket’s...
Videos: Onehunga Station Today
Here are videos and photos of the construction of the temporary Onehunga station and platform as it looked this afternoon. KiwiRail says the construction and spur...
Photos: Onehunga Platform
KiwiRail says the construction of Onehunga’s new spur line and station is set to take just a few more weeks. Contractors have begun earthworks and platform...
Onehunga Platform Starts
The new Onehunga platforms are coming on. The platform walls are completed, just waiting on back-filling. Roger Kirk who took these photos today (thanks, Roger!)...
Penrose II Gets Covered
The Onehunga line stops - Penrose II and Te Papapa are getting their ‘street furniture’ installed. This means the platforms are near completion...
Onehunga Site Cleared
The old ITM site has now been almost cleared for work on the new Onehunga train station. The line opens on September 19. Here is a video overview of how the site...
Videos: Onehunga Work Begins
15 weeks until the new Onehunga station opens and the line kicks back into life after 38 years. Onehunga train station construction on the old ITM site Construction...
