CRL Milestones in Videos
Videos 2024
November 2024
Julian Charnay on the complex job of sorting out the signalling underground in the City Rail Link tunnels.
October 2024
The new KiwiRail Auckland Rail Operations Centre is an important part of the work to get CRL ready.
Ensuring tracks & tunnels are fit for purpose for the first train.
We've finished grinding the rails to make a smooth ride for our test trains.
Getting ready for the first train in the tunnels.
The construction, installation and realisation of the Maungawhau Station waterwall feature.
September 2024
Mercury Lane construction time-lapse.
August 2024
Auckland One Rail’s group of test train officers have been part of a brand new below-ground experience – preparing to operate trains safely through our tunnels.
Link Alliance energised and safely operated the project’s first tunnel ventilation fan at Maungawhau Station.
Te Waihorotiu Station update
Outgoing CEO Dr Sean Sweeney discusses CRL and infrastructure in NZ.
July 2024
The fit-out phase at Karanga-a-Hape Station included 503km of cable to be pulled through the station.
Construction update at Karanga-a-Hape Station.
June 2024
CRL signalling is connected to the Auckland rail network.
May 2024
How the Maungawhau Station is looking.
Skylight glass panels installation at Te Waihorotiu Station.
April 2024
Maungawhau Station portal backfill timelapse
Work that began with hand-held spades in the ground four years ago came full circle with us celebrating the end of work to shift one massive pile of dirt and then replace it with another at the project’s Maungawhau Station site.
Maungawhau Platform Time lapse
It took two years. This video gives a bird’s eye view of the construction of the platform, and then takes you down to platform level to view the completion of the tracks and platform ceiling and fitout.
Launch of NZ Music Month at Te Waihorotiu
A first-ever never to be repeated performance. To help launch NZ Music Month, Aotearoa singer and beatmaker Geneva AM became the first ever artist to perform on the City Rail Link underground platforms.
Ventilation Underground
Ventilation systems are under installation across the project - from huge fans to control dampers. These clever systems do everything from keeping temperatures in the tunnels cool, to assisting in emergency operations, to providing fresh air in the stations.
Sky Elements at Maungawhau
Designed by iwi artist Tessa Harris, the sky element feature is one of four separate elements that tell the design kōrero of the Maungawhau station building. The sky element is made of triangular shingles of three colours and reflectance levels.
February 2024
CRL completes tunnel track laying
We have completed installation of the second and final railway line below the central city.
The newly laid 3.4 kilometres of track will carry trains underground north from Maungawhau Station at Eden Terrace and connect with the two new central city ones – Karanga-a-Hape and Te Waihorotiu – and downtown’s Waitematā Station (Britomart). CRL’s southbound line was installed last year.
The focus for 2024 shifts to train testing and the fit out of the stations and tunnels, alongside landscaping and urban realm enhancements. The fit-out programme includes the installation of lifts, escalators, security systems, CCTV, electricity, signalling and communications.