31/05/2025
📍From Auckland to Shanghai — A Transport Engineer’s Dream Day ✈️🚄🚇
What a journey! In just 24 hours, we experienced nearly every major mode of modern transport — and I was in my element.
Here’s how we made it from New Zealand 🇳🇿 to China 🇨🇳:
🚘 Uber to Britomart Station
🚆 AT train to Puhinui
🚌 Bus to Auckland International Airport
✈️ China Southern Boeing 787 to Guangzhou
✈️ Airbus A330 to Shanghai Pudong
🚄 MAGLEV train to Longyang Rd Station
🚇 Shanghai Metro to People's Square
The highlights!
🌟 Flying on the spacious and smooth Boeing 787
🌟 Experiencing the MAGLEV — the world’s fastest commercial passenger train! It can reach 431 km/h, though it typically cruises at a modest 300 km/h. Powered by magnetic levitation, it glides without touching the tracks — an engineering marvel!
From rail to runway to rapid transit — this wasn’t just travel, it was a transport engineer’s playground.
What an amazing travel day!