Mangere's Final Days

DFB 7186, now back in the general freight fleet, leads DC 4260 on a freight train near Middlemore

14 November 2011

DC 4732 positions its carriages on the short platform of Mangere, during the station's final weeks of service

14 November 2011

King's College students disembark from the train at Mangere. After 9 December the station will close and students will instead use Middlemore, 550 metres away

14 November 2011

DC 4104 leads an SA5 past the southbound Mangere platform. The disused northbound platform is located on the other side of the road bridge

14 November 2011

DCP 4790 passes Mangere with the southbound Overlander

14 November 2011

DBR 1254 leads the SX set through Mangere

14 November 2011

The second service of the day to use Mangere station lets its passengers off

14 November 2011

DC 4536 pauses at Mangere station

14 November 2011

DC 4939 leads a service to Britomart past the Mangere platform

14 November 2011

DFB 7010 slows down to stop at Mangere station on the third service of the day

14 November 2011

ADK 685 on the last service of the day to use Mangere, stopping at 8:07am

14 November 2011

DL 9014 leads train 183 through Mangere, the last train able to get through before a fault halted trains

14 November 2011

DL 9204 leads train MP28 through Mangere with a rake of empty IM wagons. Note the ADK in the background running "wrong line"

14 November 2011

A DC passes the disused northbound platform at Mangere

14 November 2011

Slowing down for a red signal up ahead, another SA set passes the disused Mangere platform

14 November 2011

ADL 807 leads another ADL past Mangere

14 November 2011

DC 4369 pushes its train past the disused Mangere platform before stopping at a red signal

14 November 2011

DC 4104 crosses SD 5999 at Middlemore

14 November 2011

DFB 7010, having finished its last run, now returns through Middlemore in the other direction

14 November 2011