Final Days of the SAs

SD 5626 in the morning sun arriving at Homai

3 July 2015

SD 6166 arrives at Homai just after peak

3 July 2015

DC 4260 pushing its train away from Homai. The locomotive is the only one of its class in the original KiwiRail livery, and one of four KiwiRail liveried locomotives in SA service

3 July 2015

SD 5811 arriving at Homai

3 July 2015

DCP 4663, one of three DCP class locomotives in SA service, stopping at Puhinui on a citybound service

3 July 2015

DCP 4663 gets under way with a sound soon not to be heard across Auckland

3 July 2015

DC 4104 stops at Papakura in the rain after dark on its way to Pukekohe

3 July 2015

DC 4415 slows down to stop at Penrose on a trip south

13 July 2015

DC 4248 departs Grafton on an early morning run to Swanson

15 July 2015

SD 5993 stops at Grafton on its way west

15 July 2015

SD 5675 climbs from Grafton past Mt Eden Prison

15 July 2015

DC 4104 powers the set out of Grafton

15 July 2015

SD 5624 arrives on another westbound service

15 July 2015

DCP 4818 provides the power as the set enters Grafton

15 July 2015

DCP 4945 descends out of Grafton with a six-car SA

15 July 2015

The lengthy train descends the grade from Grafton

15 July 2015

On the last day of SA service in the electrified area, DC 4035 waits at Britomart to run to Papakura

17 July 2015

DC 4035 just prior to departure, on the last day of diesel suburban services in Britomart

17 July 2015

DCP 4818 propels a set down the grade into Britomart

17 July 2015

DC 4375 enters the Britomart tunnel

17 July 2015

DC 4093 stops to let a new AM class EMU past

17 July 2015

The old and the new meet as DC 4093 waits for an unidentified AM

17 July 2015

DC 4104 waits to run a service to Waitakere, on the last day of rail services to that station

17 July 2015

DC 4444, the most well known loco in the AT fleet, waits at Britomart to run south

17 July 2015