North Island Main Trunk
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The North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) is the main railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, connecting the capital city Wellington with the country's largest city, Auckland. The line is 682 kilometres (424 mi) long, built to the New Zealand rail gauge of 1,067 mm and serves the large cities of Palmerston North and Hamilton.
Panorama of the Raurimu Spiral.
Approaching Auckland CBD through the eastern suburbs on the Westfield deviation to the North Island Main Trunk.
In the 1930s, the Wellington end was deviated from Wellington to Tawa Flat by the Tawa Flat deviation, including two long tunnels. The deviation is the centre two tracks, with the Wairarapa Line's Ngauranga station in the background, alongside State Highway 1.
EW1805 hauling DC 4611 near Paekākāriki on the electrified Wellington section. This section of the North Island Main Trunk was electrified in 1940.
Onehunga
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Onehunga is a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand and the location of the Port of Onehunga, the city's small port on the Manukau Harbour. It is eight kilometres south of the city centre, close to the volcanic cone of Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill.
Onehunga Mall viewed from near the southern end
The current (2009) foreshore, dominated by man-made breakwaters and thus relatively inhospitable
Onehunga Mall, the main street of the Onehunga town centre
The former post office