CRL Milestones in Photos
Photos 2024
April 2024
APRIL 2024: How the tunnel portal area at the Maungawhau Station construction site looks as backfill finished. It’s the end of work to shift one massive pile of dirt and then replace it with another at our site.
APRIL 2024: At Te Waihorotiu Station. ultra-thick glazing is now fully installed across the station’s seven skylights, representing the Matariki constellation.
APRIL 2024: A first-ever never to be repeated performance. To help launch NZ Music Month Aotearoa singer and beatmaker Geneva AM became the first ever artist to perform on the City Rail Link underground platforms.
APRIL 2024: Minister of Transport, Simeon Brown and Auckland Council Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson tour our construction to get an updated look of the progress.
APRIL 2024: Installation of overhead line equipment (OHLE) is well underway and will supply power to trains when they’re travelling inside the tunnels.
APRIL 2024: We ran a training session recently with the KiwiRail track maintenance team on how to maintain track inside the CRL tunnels,
APRIL 2024: The Karanga-a-Hape Station team has finished the installation of the escalators in the Beresford Square entrance that will take commuters from street level to the concourse level.
March 2024
MARCH 2024: At Te Waihorotiu Station, the first two 22 kilovolt transformers have been livened along with the first two low voltage main switchboards. These help distribute power where needed within the station once operational.
MARCH 2024: CRL’s CEO Sean Sweeney hosted senior representatives from Fire and Emergency NZ and New Zealand Police on a walkthrough of the developing stations and the underground tunnels.
MARCH 2024: The CRL Mana Whenua Forum and Link Alliance on site at Maungawhau Station celebrate the first completed and revealed sky element on the new CRL stations.
February 2024
FEBRUARY 2024: We’ve finished completed installation of the second and final railway line below the central city.
The newly laid 3.4 kilometres of track will carry trains underground north from Maungawhau Station at Eden Terrace and connect with the two new central city ones – Karanga-a-Hape and Te Waihorotiu – and downtown’s Waitematā Station (Britomart). CRL’s southbound line was installed last year.
It gives the green light for testing trains through the tunnels.
