City Rail Link

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The City Rail Link (CRL) is an underground rapid transit system that forms an integrated part of the overground Auckland commuter railway network. It consists of pair of 3.45-kilometre-long (2.14 mi) tunnels underneath Auckland's city centre, extending the North Island Main Trunk railway line from its former terminus at Waitematā Station (formerly Britomart) to a junction with the North Auckland Line at Maungawhau Station. Planned since 2013, construction began in 2018 and included two underground stations serving the city centre: Te Waihorotiu near Aotea Square and Karanga-a-Hape near Karangahape Road. Waitematā Station was converted from a terminus station into a through station, and Mount Eden station was replaced by Maungawhau Station, a station with four platforms to serve as an interchange between the CRL line and the Western Line. The CRL is an adapted version of previous proposals to improve rail access to Auckland's city centre with the first proposals dating back to the 1920s...

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