Final Days of the SAs

The SA sets in their final days of service
70 photos in this gallery. Showing photos 1 - 24

DC 4375 waits at Papakura to run a Southern Line service to Britomart

2 June 2015

DC 4375 departs with a roar, a sound that will soon no longer be heard around Auckland

2 June 2015

DC 4260, the last locomotive to enter SA service, arrives at Papakura on a run to Britomart

2 June 2015

A change of drivers as DC 4260 waits to depart

2 June 2015

SD 5811 leads its train into Papakura station. The SA sets were introduced as a stopgap measure in 2004, in response to growing patronage on the rail network. The push-pull concept was new to New Zealand at the time

2 June 2015

DC 4254 departs Puhinui past new shelter works

2 June 2015

DC 4254 roars off towards Papatoetoe

2 June 2015

DCP 4818 picks up passengers at Puhinui on its way south

2 June 2015

As a thunderstorm rolls in over Auckland, DCP 4945 pushes a load of passengers to Pukekohe. The locomotive is one of five DC class rebuilt from the DA class at Hutt Workshops, all of which are now in SA service

2 June 2015

Facing backwards, DC 4035 leads a service to Britomart, stopping at Puhinui en route. DC 4035 was one of the first locomotives to enter SA service in 2004, alongside DC 4415

9 June 2015

DC 4951 at Britomart waiting to run a southbound service

18 June 2015

DC 4536 stops at Papakura on its way to Britomart

18 June 2015

Three SA sets have been stored at Taumarunui owing to a lack of space in Auckland. SD 3197's set is one of the sets in storage here

18 June 2015

SA 3212 and SD 5883 stored at Taumarunui

18 June 2015

SA 3185 and SD 5761 coupled at Taumarunui

18 June 2015

SA 3195 at the end of the rake of stored SAs

18 June 2015

Stored SA sets under the cover of darkness at Taumarunui

21 June 2015

DC 4536 stands next to the Pukekohe station building before running the final service out of Pukekohe for the night

22 June 2015

Prototype SD 3197 leading the set, before being wrapped

Photo by Aaron Wong

29 June 2015

DFB 7158 passes Taumarunui at speed with the Northbound Northern Explorer

Photo by Aaron Wong

30 June 2015

Shrink wrapping in progress

Photo by Aaron Wong

30 June 2015

This is the same shrink wrap process used for buildings under construction. It uses an LPG powered heat gun to shrink the wrap around the vehicles.

Photo by Aaron Wong

30 June 2015

DC 4916 runs the last SA service on the Southern Line of the day, stopping beside motorway traffic at Ellerslie

1 July 2015

SD 5626 arriving at Homai in the counterpeak direction

3 July 2015

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