A video documenting the final leg of Alice the giant tunnel boring machine's New Zealand journey has been released online.
After two years of rumbling under Auckland to create part of the Waterview Connection, the 87m piece of German machinery was dismantled, packed up and sent back home last month.
With the help of dozens of support vehicles and their crews, the 270 tonne main drive, Alice's "heart", was moved overnight at the start of February from the project's Owairaka site along Sandringham Road, through Mt Eden and Grafton to the Ports of Auckland.
NZ Transport Agency said because of the main drive's huge weight, it had to be shifted on the back of a 48 axle, double-width trailer and pulled by three tractor units with another one behind to give it an extra push.