Auckland Rail Network Closed as Underground CRL Loop Gets Last Push to Finish Line

Auckland rail network closed as underground CRL loop gets last push to finish line

Auckland's rail network is closed once again as agencies run a final dress rehearsal for the long anticipated City Rail Link.

Take a tour of Auckland's City Rail Link

Auckland's long-awaited CRL - the City Rail Link - is edging close to opening. Take a tour of the Karanga-a-Hape station.

The City Rail Link Is Almost Here. Was It Worth It?

The City Rail Link has been part of Auckland’s scenery for so long — the cones, the hoardings, the diverted bus stops — that it is easy to forget it was ever meant to be finished. Now it is, very nearly. Sometime in the second half of 2026, trains will start carrying passengers through twin tunnels under the city centre. After a decade of disruption and a price tag that grew with the years, the obvious question is the one nobody official wants t…