Waitematā railway station, formerly known as Britomart Transport Centre, is the public transport hub in the central business district of Auckland and the northern terminus of the North Island Main Trunk railway line. It combines a railway station in a former Edwardian post office, extended with expansive modernist architectural elements, with a bus interchange. It is at the foot of Queen Street, the main commercial thoroughfare of the CBD, with the main ferry terminal just across Quay Street.
An EMU arrives at the newly electrified station, 2014.
General Post Office building in 1911, with the entrance to the Queen Street railway station to the right
The underground train terminus prior to electrification
2000s plan for City Rail Link. Newton Station was later dropped in favour of an upgraded interchange with new platforms and a grade separated junction at the existing Mount Eden station, at the southern end of the City Rail Link.
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.