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Papatoetoe

Town clock chime.

  • E-WS-C
  • South family
  • Brass signature

Why Papatoetoe sounds like this

The old town-centre clock ticks under a chime that steps down, then strikes once low. Papatoetoe was its own borough from 1946 and its own city from 1965 until 1989, and in 1928 a clock went up above the Central Theatre on St George Street to strike the hours on a ship's bell. The chime is that clock striking the hour.

Inside the chime

Papatoetoe'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

    Papatoetoe's own motif 3.2 s

    Town clock chime. 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

ŌtāhuhuMiddlemorePapatoetoeYou are herePuhinuiManukau

The South family

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