Pre-shutdown

This weekend (14 and 15 July), the entire suburban network will be closed for various works around the city, including at Papakura where KiwiRail will "demolish[...] existing structures on the island platform and [carry out] excavation and drainage work". With that in mind, I took some photos today of the station before any of this happened.

Panels for the station building shelter are now missing, presumably so they can be refurbished

Overview of the platform works from the Clevedon Road bridge

On both sides we now have workers, with a train squeezing through. Note how close the fence is to the train

Another train approaches the station as diggers work at the north end

On one side of the fence, things look completely finished, on the other it's a bomb site

Behind the station building, the temporary buildings that had been there for years are finally gone

Areas of the station that are untouched by workers are now seemingly a minority. Very little remains of what was once Platform 3

A lone rail protector stands north of the Clevedon Rd bridge - I counted three of these at the station. These men sound a horn when a train approaches the worksite

After the weekend I return to university, so these blog posts may become more frequent, even daily, as I'll be using the station every weekday and can keep a better eye on progress.