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Suburban trains around the Sarawia Street level crossing in Newmarket. The crossing is scheduled to be removed in the near future once AT build an overpass from the next street over. Although the crossing has low road traffic levels and is not unsafe, this is the busiest level crossing in New Zealand by rail movements and presents challenges to operations at Newmarket

The third and final batch of SAs return from Mt Maunganui to Taumarunui, behind DL 9008. The carriages were running as train B79 from Hamilton to Taumarunui.

Glenbrook Steel Mill's Niigata shunt locomotive on the move from Mission Bush to Otahuhu, towed by DCP 4790. The shunt ran as train L9P

DL 9348 leads dead DL 9452 and train MH9 through Tuakau, the first MHx series train to run (with MH3 earlier in the day being cancelled). Trains MH3 and MH9 are renumbered from MP3 and MP9, with the trains stopping at Hamilton for CT work

DL 9446 leads a rake of seven SDs and three SAs from Mt Maunganui back to Taumarunui, running as trains C98 and B79. The rumour is that the sale of the SAs has fallen through, and the space is needed at Mt Maunganui

Silver Fern RM 30 on the southern suburban circuit at Penrose, Panmure, Papakura and Remuera on a short excursion from Auckland to Huntly via Mission Bush and return. It was the first time in several years that the Railway Enthusiasts Society had run to the steel mill at Glenbrook

DXC 5310 and DXC 5483 head train 714 from Christchurch to Picton, crossing (and exchanging crew with) train 725 near Clarence

Loading coal wagons using a low loader at Stillwater, then following the TranzAlpine from Stillwater to Darfield via Greymouth

DSG 3304 runs trains Y33C and Y33D from Invercargill to Bluff and return, stopping to shunt at the Wool Dumpers siding en route. The train also shunts at Bluff before returning to Invercargill

DXC 5460 and DXC 5425 run as train 935D from Dunedin to Invercargill, crossing DXB 5080 and DCP 4755 running train 926 at Mataura

Trains 934, 920D and two DCs on the Main South Line between Dunsandel and Timaru

Transdev's first day of running the Wellington suburban network, with the Wairarapa Connection operating as a hook and tow using KiwiRail drivers. As an extra, DFB 7213 and DFT 7145 haul log train F49 through Trentham

Chasing the Northern Explorer from Orakei (near the train's origin at Strand) to Wellington, following the train through fog and through the hilly central North Island. DFT 7051 heads the train for the southbound journey

DXB 5074 leads train MP6S through Papakura shortly after switching to the Down Main, with the Up Main closed for work at the Takanini motorway interchange

Scenes from the Eastern Line between Westfield and Panmure, including three shots of the port shunt with DC 4951 and DC 4939

RM 30 heads south on a repeat trip to Kinleith, then is seen returning north across the Ngaruawahia bridge and Kellyville. The trip was delayed a week due to LE crewing issues, and ran as a repeat trip of the same excursion a month and a half earlier

EMUs running abbreviated services on the Western Line over Queen's Birthday weekend, terminating at Newmarket with bus replacements to Britomart. The trains themselves laid over at Newmarket before continuing on to Onehunga as a different public service, rather than running as two separate runs

Former Auckland Transport locomotive DFB 7200 makes its first appearance on the Northern Explorer, having come out of overhaul just weeks prior. DFB 7200 heads train 200 through Huntly and Pokeno, still showing off its gleaming paint work

DC 4254 and DCP 4611 lead train B62 (Taumarunui to Te Rapa) and C12 (Te Rapa to Mt Maunganui), conveying 20 SA carriages to Mt Maunganui for export. The wagon on the end was used solely for carrying the train end monitor. The SA fleet were partially withdrawn in July 2015 and fully with drawn in September 2015, after the AM class EMUs took over all services between Papakura and Swanson, and then the ADL class reclaiming the Pukekohe shuttle services, and have been stored at Taumarunui ever since

Silver Fern railcar RM 30 on the final leg of Pukekohe Travel's lower North Island tour, returning home from National Park to Auckland. The railcar spent a week travelling around the North Island, visiting Napier, Wellington and the Wairarapa

On its first excursion of the winter 2016 season since returning to Auckland the previous week, RM 30 heads from Auckland to Kinleith and return, with a Railway Enthusiasts Society charter. The railcar will be kept busy over the season as it started a week-long Pukekohe Travel charter the following day. At Ngaruawahia, the railcar ran wrong line due to track work on a level crossing ahead

DFT 7051 leads train C91, Auckland to Mt Maunganui, with redundant ADK and ADB class carriages in tow. The DMUs were being moved to Mt Maunganui for shipment. The consist of the train was DFT 7051 leading ADB 774, ADK 688, ADK 681, ADK 685 and ADK 684. The SX set and most of the remainder of the ADK fleet travelled down to Mt Maunganui on two separate trains the previous day

Silver Fern railcar RM 30 returns home on the back of train 226 across Boundary Road, with DFT 7051 leading dead DL 9164 on the head. RM 30 spent summer in the South Island during the cruise ship season, and returned from Dunedin to Auckland over three days

Some suburban passenger trains around Takanini and Manurewa, as well as DL 9423 on train MP7 and DL 9020 on train MP4