Happy New Year

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2013. KiwiRail staff are hard at work on major projects around the Auckland network, and Papakura station is one of them. Although staff had obviously knocked off for the day when I arrived, the progress made since my last update about a week ago is clear.

Platform 2's new track is ready for ballast

The other side isn't quite finished yet, although the rebuilt platform is now half sealed

Oddly the new track is connected to the southbound track instead of the centre track. One hopes this is just temporary prior to clearing of the left over rails

The Platform 1 rebuild isn't quite finished yet

The new northern end of the island platform

A more substantial update may be made in the next few days, rather than this "refresher" post to quickly keep you updated.