How do you keep your deck dry in New Zealand? 😏

Incidentally Penrose Platform 3 is also 144 metres long and is signaled for terminating operations - I'm not sure if Mount Smart specials have made use of that ability, but it is theoretically possible. Even in diesel days, Penrose Platform 3 was 80 metres long while the other two Onehunga platforms were only 40 metres long for the same reason.

The reason Kaiwharawhara was closed was because a) the only means of accessing the platforms was the footbridge, which wasn't in great shape and didn't comply with modern accessibility standards, and b) the passenger numbers using the station didn't justify the cost of putting in underpass access - assuming you could make such a thing work with the narrow platforms. The platforms were abandoned in place after the footbridge was removed.

Indeed. This is because there are no points on the crossing loop entrance and exit. Instead, the wheels on the outer side of the car are double flanged to guide the car through, with the wheels on the inner side merely being a roller that rides on top of the rail. This allows for the necessary gaps for the cables to pass through. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular#/media/File:Heidelberg_funicular_wheelset.jpg for an illustration (not necessarily exactly like the Kilburn car.) As was stated in the commentary, this means that at the stop on the crossing loop, the platform for the uphill and down hill cars will alternate for each journey. Presumably there would be some sort of indicator to show which direction the next car will be going.

Nah. It's because that's the main line. Newmarket is a branch and also a very busy junction thanks to southern, western and onehunga lines using it. You have 8 trains per hour running to/from Parnell to Newmarket, 5 running south and 3 to/from Grafton. And make those 14, 8 and 6 at peak. Which is when Te Huia mainly runs. At peak you can often end up with all three platforms at Newmarket full and trains running wrong way through the station to use any available platform. Meanwhile the Westfield junction where Southern and Eastern merge is a lot easier to fit Te Huia through.

I did!

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Very real

very tiny…

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would've loved to but unfortunately didn't have the time. hope one day they make it a sleeper train as i would've absolutely ridden that!

There used to be sleeper trains on the North Island Main Trunk, but sadly, they've been gone for ages now. I think the last one was the Northerner, but that was discontinued in 2004.

@@TheTrainspotterFromTauranga , and even at the end the Northerner didn't have sleeping cars - those were removed in 1987.

I also found it useful when I used to live in Newlands - take the bus down the hill to Ngauranga, then catch the train up to Petone.

In between earthquakes, yes.

Wait, why wouldn’t they?

@@Rezaal not very famous thats all

barely.I’m not so familiar with Wellington, but the Auckland network is pretty limited and only useful if you happen to live and work close enough to a station. A lot of people have to drive to get to a train or bus station, which is really only to save on parking in the city. The major cities used to have extensive tram networks, but none exist today save for a couple tiny historical tourist attractions in Christchurch, which only reinforces the populous’ thinking that trams are a thing of the past.

@@closeben Agreed. Adding onto that, there's a couple of historical trams as well in Auckland at the MOTAT museum and the Wynard Quarter. Though those are obviously also attractions.

8th? Who is the 7th Aussie state? Let me guess - alcoholism?

You really think we’re that poor?

@@TxtalArmi , we (New Zealand) are poor though - have you seen the headlines lately?