Videos

Rail action around the Newmarket area in the rain

DCP 4818 departs Papakura, and later, DXB 5016 passes through on train MP3

Trains to and from Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park on Saturday 11 December, including some footage from the concert itself.

Trains around Auckland on 30 November 2010

Trains at Otahuhu during a weekend shutdown. Featuring DFB 7010 departing Westfield.

ET 3252/EM 1252 and EM 1528/ET 3528 at Paraparaumu

DC 4029 heads the northbound Overlander, about to stop at Taihape.

Mainline Steam's Bagnall in action during an open day

A train ride from Ellerslie to Onehunga on the first day of rail services on the Onehunga Branch, 19 September 2010.

Trains on the Onehunga line on the first day of services, 19 September 2010

Ja 1275 runs light loco through Newmarket station to pick up carriages for an excursion to Helensville.

DC 4260 leads train 201, the southbound Overlander, into Papakura station en route to Wellington.

Trains from various places around the network, during free train travel on the 5th of September

ADL 807 and ADL 809 on a southbound service at Ellerslie, viewed from slow traffic on the motorway.

ADL 810 on an empty run, then the SX set departing Sylvia Park and an SA set (pushed by DC 4444) arriving.

Rugby special trains to and from Kingsland, and bypassing Newmarket on the first rugby special.

ADL 801 on a Western Line service pulls into a lit up Newmarket Station.

Train 348 arriving at Mission Bush, then some shunting with the steel mill loco.

From 20 June, Sunday trains began running out to Henderson. During the previous weekend the second track in the New Lynn trench opened, as well as Avondale station. First, the train arrives at Newmarket, then we take a ride from Sunnyvale to Henderson on a Sunday, then back through the trench on

"New" tripod, trying it out. Three ADLs at Middlemore.

SA set pushed by DC 4415 heads under Settlement Rd at night. Shaky because the person next to me was being annoying.

Newly overhauled and freshly repainted, class leader DXB 5016 heads MP23 across Opaheke Rd

The good bits from the time lapse video

Time lapse of trains and passengers at Papakura station, from about 4:30 to 5:30 on the 15th of April. The two freight trains are MP3 (?) with DXR 8022 and 227 with DFT 7049.

Trains on the Western Line on 13 April 2010

The SX set departing Britomart on one of its "rare" times in service

DXB 5080 on train 182 through Mercer

DXR 8022 crosses DFT 7282 at Papakura. DXR 8022 is running wrong line due to track works between Papakura and Papatoetoe.

Trains on the Southern Line on Tuesday 23 March, including some Western Line trains at Newmarket and Eastern Line trains south of Westfield.

DFT 7064 moving some boxcars back at Westfield.

ADL 807 and ADL 810 at the former Newmarket West station

DXR 8007 in its new KiwiRail livery heads south on MP13 through Papatoetoe

DFT 7282 (which stalks me) and DFT 7064 on train 243 through Papatoetoe.

SD 3199 arriving at Newmarket, rounding the Newmarket triangle n that train, passing the Avondale station construction site and the train twice at Swanson

Westfield Yard and Otahuhu station from a passing train (ADL 809)

Trains in the New Lynn rail trench, starting with a train journey through the trench stopping at the new station

DXR 8022 on MP12, and DC 4300 on the southbound Overlander yesterday morning. These were the last videos I was able to get onto my computer before the camera was stolen

Train 235 leaving Westfield, plus some ADLs, and 235 (with DFT 7282, DFT 7049 and DFB 7173) at Takanini

What taking the train from Takanini to Papakura looks like

Rail action around Manurewa, including DC 4317 on train 230 towards Westfield

DXR 8022 on train MP3, plus other trains around Takanini Station, including DCP 4605. (Despite what the number said, MP3 was not playing music as it went past.)

Tour of the new Newmarket Station, a bit shaky at times as I had to film discretely to avoid the security guards

DFM 7322, on train 227

Pacing the Goldfields Railway train

DBR 1226 and DFT 7049 on train 180, which ran about 20 minutes late

Trains on the Eastern Line on its first full day of operation for 2010 after a one week shutdown

Trains around Takanini and Papakura. Filmed form Walters Rd in Takanini to the Settlement Rd underbridge just south of Papakura Station