Manukau: Open Day and Day 1

The temporary Manukau Station entrance. This entrance will remain until a new MIT campus is built over the top of the station, estimated to be completed in 2013

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The Manukau Station concourse on ground level, during an open day. ADK 682 gave free rides to and from Puhuinui Station from 11:30am to 2pm

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Signs welcome potential passengers to the brand new station, on its first day of public use. Services commence on 15 April 2012

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ADK 682 at Manukau Platform 2, waiting to run a shuttle service to Puhinui

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The shuttle trains were popular with the attending crowds, with most seats in ADB 772 taken and some people standing

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New network maps have begun appearing in the trains themselves

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At the other end of the shuttle train was ADK 687, seen here at the west side of Manukau Station

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The west side of the new Manukau Station

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Buffers at the end of the line. A DJ is situated at the end for the open day

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ADK 687 waits to run another shuttle service

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The station sign on the wall of the trench

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ADK 682 displays Manukau on its destination board. Services will run both via Newmarket and Glen Innes

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People line up to get their free souvenir tickets and stickers before boarding the train

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Looking down the trench from the cab of ADK 687

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ADK 687 climbs the grade on the branch just before reaching State Highway 20

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Waiting for a regular commuter train at the end of the Manukau Branch

14 April 2012

The reconfigured tracks at Wiri. Presumably the track to the left will become the third main and EMU depot access road, the centre track will be the northbound track and the right track will be the southbound track

14 April 2012

Puhinui Station from the cab

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The controls of ADK 687

14 April 2012

Manukau Station on Day 1 of timetabled services, before the arrival of the first train

15 April 2012

After arriving empty from Otahuhu, ADK 687 waits at Manukau to run the first service to Britomart. It and ADK 682 had run shuttle trains to Puhinui the previous day

15 April 2012

Manukau displaying on the PIDs at Orakei

15 April 2012

ADLs 805 and 806 wait at Manukau after running the second service from Britomart

15 April 2012

ADL 806 stands at Manukau

15 April 2012