{"id":322758,"date":"2026-03-10T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322758\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:12:11","slug":"city-rail-link-new-manukau-to-swanson-train-route-shown-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322758\/","title":{"rendered":"City Rail Link: New Manukau to Swanson train route shown on video"},"content":{"rendered":"

That connects it to the existing western line, creating a continuous journey from Manukau to Swanson as part of the new east-west line. <\/p>\n

The reveal comes as April is set for further network disruption. <\/p>\n

AT said more dry-run tests of the new network would be run next month to check if systems are linking with trains and to make sure \u201cnew services will be safe and reliable\u201d. <\/p>\n

The transport authority\u2019s website showed a full network closure \u201cfor CRL timetable testing\u201d from April 13-15. <\/p>\n

No trains will be running from April 3-6, and other partial or full closures will be in place during the month. These closures are not for CRL testing. <\/p>\n

The upcoming opening of the $5.5 billion project contributed to a full rail closure from December 27, 2025, to January 18<\/a> this year as work was undertaken to get it up and running, while other maintenance work also took place. <\/p>\n

Partial closures or reduced services were also in place around the summer holidays. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe City Rail Link project, now costing $5.5 billion, will open this year. Photo \/ Facebook \/ City Rail Link<\/p>\n

The CRL, the country\u2019s largest transport project, is slated to open in the latter half of this year. Sources have told the Herald the opening was scheduled for September<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Construction on the CRL began in 2015. The tunnels were finished in 2022 and the first full test was completed in February last year. <\/p>\n

Once finished, the mega project will link the eastern and western lines via 3.4km of tunnels, providing new direct connections. <\/p>\n

The southern line will run in both directions via a loop through the central city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That connects it to the existing western line, creating a continuous journey from Manukau to Swanson as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,2199,3806,19473,71,2203,13840,58,13457,57533,117,111,43,139,69,90,6029,2680,207,13181,63502,15041,174347,61,11685,112,416,3807,6923,1533],"class_list":["post-322758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-city","tag-east","tag-footage","tag-from","tag-journey","tag-like","tag-link","tag-look","tag-manukau","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-once","tag-opens","tag-rail","tag-released","tag-route","tag-shown","tag-swanson","tag-to","tag-train","tag-transport","tag-video","tag-west","tag-what","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}