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Pukekohe

Plucked tune and a skylark.

  • S-C
  • South family
  • Brass signature

Why Pukekohe sounds like this

A plucked guitar tune plays over a bass line, then a skylark trills. Pukekohe's rich volcanic soil has made it the country's market garden, growing much of New Zealand's fresh vegetables. The skylark is the bird you hear over its open fields. Pukekohe is the southern end of the South-City line.

Inside the chime

Pukekohe's chime runs about 5 seconds, in three parts. Every station's chime ends on its family's signature, so you can tell roughly where you are by ear.

  1. 1

    Pukekohe's own motif 3.2 s

    Plucked tune and a skylark. 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.

  3. 3

    The end-of-line bell 1.5 s

    Pukekohe is the end of the South-City line. On that line's trains its chime finishes with a bell, to tell you this is as far as the train goes.

On the network

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The South family

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