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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a long, but lovely day on the iron road celebrating the opening of Auckland's City Rail Link! what a fantastic addition to a fantastic city, extremely glad I could make it across the ditch for this please enjoy this little thread of some of my highlights from today

an Auckland EMU arriving into Parnell station at 5:30am this morning, one of the first trains into the City Rail Link. The sun has not even risen yet

the main station building for Te Waihorotiu, with a beautiful blue/grey tiled top and a brick bottom, looking very fitting on this prominent street corner

a group of people walking through a cross passage at Karanga-a-Hape Station, with the classic London Crossrail/Sydney Metro design language, a very round passage with sandstone walls and white fins on the roof. Very space age

a large group of people waiting to board a South - City train bound for Pukekohe at The Waihorotiu station

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a very good morning from Parnell station, in just a few short moments our train will head under beautiful Tamaki Makaurau

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

even an evacuation at 6am due to a small fire at the other end of the tunnel couldn't dampen our spirits, that just mean there was time to snap a shot of a bus as night finally began to turn to day bsky.app/profile/mmbb...

a photo of a predawn streetscape, with a bike lane passing behind a bus stop and the Auckland skytower visible in the background, lit up blue to celebrate the opening of the CRL

Karanga-a-Hape Station in the predawn light

one of Auckland's lovely double decker electric buses, running a WX1 service to the city centre, pulling into the bus stop at Karanga-a-Hape Station with an assortment of lovely Classic Australia/NZ Victorian/Edwardian terrace shops in the background

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getting evacuated from Karanga-a-Hape was not on my bingo card but first time for everything I guess

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think my favourite station has to be Te Waihorotiu, which is expected to become the busiest station in the country (and rightly so, being in the heart of the biggest city's CBD), and it is expansive. I will be calling it the Tamaki Makaurau Space Station from here on out

people wandering around the concourse located directly above the platform at Te Waihorotiu, which is as long as a city block and gently curves around the platforms. It almost looks like a sci-fi set

a train arriving at platform 1 on an East West line service to Makaurau as some gunzels (and a few potential legitimate commuters) wait to board

the Victoria St entrance to Te Waihorotiu, which procides access from both sides of a street on a steep grade by providing a gentle ramp from street level on one side of Albert St, and a full entrance with escalators and lifts on the other side of the street, which is a solid 5+ metres above the other entrance

passengers at the top of the escalators from the platform to the concourse, with a skylight directly above them and a huge X shaped beam bisecting the shot

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