About a year ago I reported on the closure of Wellington A Box, the last operating main line signalbox in all of New Zealand. This week one of my correspondents is on vacation there and I was a bit surprised when he said that he had been unable to spot old A Box for a photo. Well it turns out the signalbox was demolished just a few months after it was closed. KiwiRail even posted a video of its demolition as if this wasn't a major failure of historic preservation.
Anyway, my correspondent also sent me this video of his train coming off the Johnsonville Line and through A interlocking. In a bit of good news one can see that the "standard" New Zealand LED color light signals have been recently replaced by LED searchlights, bringing back a major design detail of the pre-2006 "rail modernization" drive.
You can see the difference compared to this head end video taken in 2024. The US&S M23 point machines with the external controller relays are a nice touch.
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