Meet our driver who drove the first CRL Test Train

Meet Grant Dowie, the driver who drove the first CRL test train through the tunnels on this historic journey.

City Rail Link spoke to him just before he made the 3.45-kilometre-long inaugural journey south from Waitematā Station (Britomart) under central Auckland past the new underground stations at Te Waihorotiu and Karanga-a-Hape to Maungawhau Station on the Western/North Auckland Line. 

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