NZ has a very limited passenger rail network so I get very excited by the thought of rail travel. Guess I’ve forgotten all the hassle of commuting while I lived in England.
It’s a fantastic building, historically, one of my favourites anywhere in New Zealand… and a fab photo! Thanks for sharing. Personally I think NZ rail travel is great but too risky to rely on – just last Thursday I ended up waiting inside that station for the trains to come right after the entire national signalling network mysteriously failed, suddenly and all at once, causing about six hours of chaos on the Wellington commuter network. One might blame ‘software updates’ in the immediate, but more fundamentally I suspect the railway network has never recovered from the brutal ‘Rogernomics’ and ‘Ruthenasia’ policies of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
I totally agree: and rail isn’t all that was gutted.
I’ve lived in Auckland for most of my time in NZ and never really been a train user, but talking to older people has made me realise just how amazing the country’s rail network once was.
An ex of mine is a civil engineer and so I know more about the Raurimu Spiral and the old Mangaweka Viaduct than is possibly healthy 😂😂
Thanks Jo: mine too. I must admit — though I’d only gone into the station to buy milk at the little grocery located there — I found myself looking at the overhead board, wondering if it was too late for a “joy-ride” to Porirua. 😂😂
Such a beautiful building and atmosphere! I especially love the warm light, around here they always use this blue white light in public buildings and stations which makes you look like a zombie. Supposedly its purpose is to discourage drug use but how that’s going to work I don’t know.
Zimmerbitch 
I’m on a train reading this. Railways can be wonderfully atmospheric.
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NZ has a very limited passenger rail network so I get very excited by the thought of rail travel. Guess I’ve forgotten all the hassle of commuting while I lived in England.
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It’s a fantastic building, historically, one of my favourites anywhere in New Zealand… and a fab photo! Thanks for sharing. Personally I think NZ rail travel is great but too risky to rely on – just last Thursday I ended up waiting inside that station for the trains to come right after the entire national signalling network mysteriously failed, suddenly and all at once, causing about six hours of chaos on the Wellington commuter network. One might blame ‘software updates’ in the immediate, but more fundamentally I suspect the railway network has never recovered from the brutal ‘Rogernomics’ and ‘Ruthenasia’ policies of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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I totally agree: and rail isn’t all that was gutted.
I’ve lived in Auckland for most of my time in NZ and never really been a train user, but talking to older people has made me realise just how amazing the country’s rail network once was.
An ex of mine is a civil engineer and so I know more about the Raurimu Spiral and the old Mangaweka Viaduct than is possibly healthy 😂😂
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Beautiful capture!
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Thanks Deb 😀
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I wish I could just travel forever! Just hop on as it suits.
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Wouldn’t that be great!
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Jackie’s a woman after my own heart… except for all that food! 🙂 🙂 Lovely atmospheric shot, Su.
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Thanks Jo: mine too. I must admit — though I’d only gone into the station to buy milk at the little grocery located there — I found myself looking at the overhead board, wondering if it was too late for a “joy-ride” to Porirua. 😂😂
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May it never be too late for a joy-ride. That could be my evening prayer, Su 🙂 🙂
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The night shot of this illuminated building has its own kind of special charm, Su.
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Thanks Peter 🙏
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very atmospheric indeed.
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Those railway stations look so majestic. Our Union Station in Toronto is very similar.
Leslie
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I think railway stations do have a “look”, probably because many were built around the same era, and with the same philosophical underpinning.
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good point…
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I understand. Looks magic!
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Such a beautiful building and atmosphere! I especially love the warm light, around here they always use this blue white light in public buildings and stations which makes you look like a zombie. Supposedly its purpose is to discourage drug use but how that’s going to work I don’t know.
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I didn’t know that. I am glad our public buildings guardians haven’t heard about that yet. 🤨
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