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Grafton

Domain

Glasshouse tones and drips.

  • S-CO-W
  • South family
  • Brass signature

Why Grafton sounds like this

Glass tones climb and hang in the air while water drips. The Wintergardens glasshouses, in the Domain next door, have grown tropical plants since the 1920s. The chime is the inside of the hothouse: warm, still air and water dripping from the panes. It carries the South chime, since only South-City and Onehunga-West trains still stop here.

Inside the chime

Grafton's chime runs about 4 seconds, in two parts. Every station's chime ends on its family's signature, so you can tell roughly where you are by ear.

  1. 1

    Grafton's own motif 3.0 s

    Glasshouse tones and drips. No other station plays it.

  2. 2

    The South family's brass 0.8 s

    A short brass note, then a longer one a fourth higher. With 21 stations, Grafton and Parnell down to Pukekohe and Manukau, it is the largest family.

On the network

Te WaihorotiuKaranga-a-HapeMaungawhauKingslandParnellNewmarketGraftonYou are hereRemueraGreenlane

The South family

21 stations end on the brass: Parnell down to Pukekohe and Manukau, plus Grafton.