Revisiting the KiwiRail services in Whangarei ~ 29/11 to 01/12/2022 (HD)

For the first time in three years, I've been able to film some trains in the Whangarei area. We'll see three KiwiRail diesel locomotives in the aforementioned city, specifically DC 4790 on the L1 shunt as well as DFBs 7158 and 7160 on the 120 / 129 working from Auckland.
The North Auckland Line gets a very infrequent service past Swanson (east of Swanson it's kept busy thanks to the electric trains), with just one freight train a day in each direction. The accompanying L1 shunt to Kauri runs around three times a day, and of course this is all weekdays only.

[@ABTrainsYT]

Why can’t there be a regional train from Auckland to Whangārei?

[@BillWalters-iz3tv]

Too bad there is no passenger trains beyond Swanson because they can't compete with the road because they would be too slow

[@MBTrainspotting]

The NAL will soon be all DLs and DXs.

[@DC4260Productions]

I don't believe the idea of DXs returning.

[@RollestonRails]

@@DC4260Productions not those cursed DLs they don’t deserve to go on that line 🤨

[@SpottingWithSam]

@@DC4260Productions Yes they are :)

[@n.f.railphotography7185]

@@DC4260Productions The DX's are coming back up to run the NAL. Me and RIki were told that when we got a tour of Westfield yard

[@rikisimeti7955]

Well, I was told DXs are currently banned from the NAL and have been for a few years now. But there is still a chance we will see the DXs running on the NAL in the future. But from what I've been told is that DLs will start running on the NAL in February. And when they do start running on the NAL, they will run as a DL+DFB combo for a while.