Flashback Saturday: “Manukau Station opens tomorrow”
This is a new feature, covering posts from approximately 5 years ago. Today, we look back on the opening of the Manukau train station. Amazingly this was the first expansion of Auckland’s rail network since 1930 when the Eastern Line opened.…
3 Comments Photo of the day: Manukau MIT campus
I was out at Manukau the other day so stopped by to see how how the new MIT campus was looking. The campus sits on top of and will be integrated to the Manukau station. The work is now primarily focused on inside the building.…
More info on the Manukau Southern Rail Link … kind of
The transport committee meets next Tuesday and there is quite a bit on the agenda. I will look at aspects at a later date but one that caught my eye is something that has been discussed a bit here recently, the Manukau Southern Rail Link Connection (page 213 – 6.9MB).…
Does a “Manukau Southern Link” make sense?
There has been renewed discussion of a southern rail connection into Manukau Station over the past few days. The catalyst for this discussion seems to have been the Council rejecting a funding bid by Auckland Transport to double-track the north-facing rail connection, with a possible reason for the rejection being some confusion about the proposed north-facing connection and the much desired south-facing connection.…
Should we build the Southern Link at Manukau?
On the agenda for this weeks Transport Committee meeting there is a notice of motion being put forward b George Wood in regard to the southern link at Manukau. If you don’t know what the southern link is, it is in the image below: Basically when the Manukau branch was built, it was only constructed with a link to the north however as part of the motorway construction, the NZTA designed the bridge that spans the motorway so that a southern link could be built in the future if needed.…
History never repeats …. Except for Transport in Auckland
They say that history never repeats but that doesn’t quite seem true when it comes to transport in Auckland. Our transport history is littered with examples of poor planning, bad decisions, underestimated demand, a lack of vision and corner cutting in order to save a few dollars.…
Manukau Station Open Day Photos
I popped down to Manukau today to have a look through the station with the open day that AT held, here are my thoughts and some photos.
The main entrance is through a few shipping containers, not the most elegant but understandable considering there is a building being built over the station at the moment.…
Manukau Station opens tomorrow
If you count the tracks into Britomart as just reinstating a line that used to exist (which is true, although originally the tracks were at ground level), then the Manukau branch is the first piece of new track added to Auckland’s rail system since 1930 – when what we know now as the Eastern Line was constructed.…
Manukau Timetable is out
The new timetable that includes Manukau is now available on MAXX. If you want to catch a train from there in the morning, arriving at Britomart between roughly 8am and 9am you have the following options: 7:16 via Glen Innes
7:37 via Newmarket
7:57 via Glen Innes
8:18 via Glen Innes Each will take roughly 40 minutes to get to Britomart.…
Manukau Train Station gets a date (and images)
Another press release from Auckland Transport yesterday, this time confirming that the Manukau line and station will open on April 15.
First stage of Manukau Station opens soon
The first stage of Auckland’s newest train station and the first rail line since the 1930s will open in Manukau on 15 April.…
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