List of Wellington railway stations

This page lists all railway stations in Wellington, New Zealand that are or were on Wellington's suburban passenger rail network. Ownership of all station buildings except Wellington was transferred to Greater Wellington Regional Council on 1 July 2011.[1] Wellington Station is owned by KiwiRail, along with all station platforms and other railway network infrastructure.[2] All stations have platforms, the majority of which were designed to accommodate 9-car DM/D EMUs. Exceptions to this include the Wairarapa stations, which have platforms long enough for either 3 or 7 car sets of SW-class carriages; and those on the Johnsonville Line, which have platforms designed for 6-car Matangi sets. Most stations in the suburban network have been upgraded to accommodate the "Matangi" electric units which were introduced from 2010.[3] The train services are run by Transdev Wellington.

Maps

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List

Current stations

StationA Metlink code Line(s) Service(s) Serves km from Wellington Fare zone(s) OpenedB
Ava AVA Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley Ava, Petone 12.5 4 27 May 1927[4]
Awarua Street AWAR Johnsonville Line Johnsonville Ngaio 6.0 3 2 July 1938[5]
Box Hill BOXH Khandallah 7.2 16 July 1956[6]
Carterton CART Wairarapa Line Wairarapa Connection Carterton 76.6 13 1 November 1880[7]
Crofton Downs CROF Johnsonville Line Johnsonville Crofton Downs, Chartwell 4.9 3 25 March 1963[6][5]
Epuni EPUN Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley Epuni, Boulcott 16.5 5 7 January 1946[6]
Featherston FEAT Wairarapa Connection Featherston 57.2 11 12 October 1878[6]
Heretaunga HERE Hutt Valley Heretaunga 28.2 6 1908[8]
Johnsonville JOHN Johnsonville Line Johnsonville Johnsonville 10.5 3 21 September 1885[9][10]
Kenepuru KENE North Island Main Trunk Kapiti Kenepuru, Linden 16.2 5 8 April 1963[6]
Khandallah KHAN Johnsonville Line Johnsonville Khandallah 8.0 3 21 September 1885[9]

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Linden LIND North Island Main Trunk Kapiti Linden 14.9 4 28 July 1940[6]
Mana[d] MANA Mana 23.2 6 5 September 1949[6]
Manor Park MANO Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley Manor Park 23.7 1 March 1954[11]
Masterton MAST Wairarapa Connection Masterton 91.0 14 1 November 1880[7]
Matarawa MATA Carterton 69.6 13 1 November 1880[7]
Maymorn MAYM Maymorn 38.8 8 3 November 1955[12]
Melling[e] MELL Melling Branch Melling Melling, Lower Hutt city centre 13.5 4 26 May 1908[6]
Naenae NAEN Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley Naenae, Avalon 18.3 5 7 January 1946[13]
Ngaio NGAI Johnsonville Line Johnsonville Ngaio 5.2 3 21 September 1885[9][10]
Ngauranga NGAU Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley, Melling Ngauranga 4.8 20 April 1874[14]
Paekākāriki PAEK North Island Main Trunk Kapiti Paekākāriki 38.8 8 31 March 1886[6]
Paraparaumu PARA Paraparaumu, Raumati 48.3 9 2 August 1886[6]
Paremata PARE Paremata 21.9 6 24 September 1885[6][9][10]
Petone PETO Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley, Melling, Wairarapa Connection Petone 10.5 4 June 1875[14]
Plimmerton PLIM North Island Main Trunk Kapiti Plimmerton 24.5 6 2 October 1885[6]
Pomare POMA Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley Pomare, Stokes Valley 22.0 5 9 August 1954[6]
Porirua PORI North Island Main Trunk Kapiti Porirua city centre 17.7 24 September 1885[6][9][15]
Pukerua Bay[g] PUKE Pukerua Bay 30.4 7 25 December 1885[6]
Raroa RARO Johnsonville Line Johnsonville Raroa 9.2 3 17 June 1940[6]
Redwood REDW North Island Main Trunk Kapiti Redwood 13.1 4 15 December 1963[6]
Renall Street RENA Wairarapa Line Wairarapa Connection Masterton 89.4 14 1936[16]
Silverstream SILV Hutt Valley Silverstream, Pinehaven 26.8 6 21 November 1954[6]
Simla Crescent SIML Johnsonville Line Johnsonville Khandallah 6.9 3 2 July 1938[5]
Solway SOLW Wairarapa Line Wairarapa Connection Masterton 88.1 14 1 November 1880[7]
Taitā TAIT Hutt Valley Taitā 20.6 5 14 April 1947[11]
Takapu Road TAKA North Island Main Trunk Kapiti Redwood, Grenada North 11.9 4 20 June 1937[6]
Tawa TAWA Tawa 13.8 24 September 1885[6][9][10]
Trentham TREN Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley Trentham 29.4 6/7 8 January 1907[6]
Upper Hutt UPPE Hutt Valley, Wairarapa Connection Upper Hutt city centre 32.4 7 1 February 1876[17]
Waikanae WAIK North Island Main Trunk Kapiti Waikanae 55.4 10 2 August 1886[6]
Wallaceville WALL Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley Wallaceville, Trentham 31.3 7 1 February 1876[6]
Waterloo WATE Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley, Wairarapa Connection Waterloo, Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt city centre 15.5 4 27 May 1927[4]
Wellington WELL All Wellington city centre 0.0 1 19 June 1937[18]
Western Hutt[k] WEST Melling Branch Melling Alicetown, Lower Hutt city centre 11.9 4 14 April 1874[19]
Wingate WING Wairarapa Line Hutt Valley Wingate, Avalon 19.5 5 25 September 1950[6]
Woburn WOBU Woburn, Waiwhetu 14.4 4 27 May 1927[4]
Woodside WOOD Wairarapa Connection Greytown 65.1 12 14 May 1880[6]

Former stations

StationA Line(s) Service(s) Serves OpenedB ClosedB
Andrews Wairarapa Line — — 26 June 1938[6] 28 February 1954[13]
Beach Hutt Park Railway — — 6 February 1885 31 January 1950[6]
Belmont Wairarapa Line — — 15 December 1875[6] 28 February 1954[13]
Clareville — — 1 November 1880[7] 30 November 1970[6]
Cross Creek — — 12 October 1878 30 October 1955[20]
Dalefield — — 1 November 1880[7] 1 February 1981[6]
Fernside — — 14 May 1880[6] 30 March 1975[6]
Gracefield[a] Gracefield Branch — — 4 April 1943[6] 1 May 2002[6]
Greytown Greytown Branch — — 14 May 1880[21] 25 December 1953[22]
Haywards[b] Wairarapa Line — — 15 December 1875[6] 1 March 1954[13]
Hutt Park Hutt Park Railway — — 6 February 1885[6] 19 November 1915[6]
Hutt Park Gracefield Branch — — 17 September 1927
27 February 1960		 5 February 1949
11 May 1965
Kaitoke Wairarapa Line — — 28 December 1877[23] 30 October 1955[20]
Kaiwharawhara — — 20 April 1874[14] 21 November 2013[24]
Lambton[c] — Wellington 1885[8] 19 June 1937[18]
Mangaroa — — 1 January 1878[6] 30 October 1955[20]
Middleton — — 8 February 1881[6] April 1891[6]
Muri North Island Main Trunk Kapiti Pukerua Bay 28 July 1952[6] 30 April 2011[25]
Otaihanga — — 2 August 1886[6] 1902[6]
Pigeon Bush Wairarapa Line — — 12 October 1878 30 October 1955[20]
Pipitea Point — — 14 April 1874[26] 30 September 1884[6]
Pitcaithly's[f] — — December 1903[6] 26 March 1938[6]
Silverstream Bridge[h] — — 26 May 1908[6][8]
17 August 1942[6]		 1917[8]
1954[13]
Summit — — 12 October 1878 30 October 1955[20]
Te Aro Te Aro Extension — Wellington 27 March 1893[27] 23 April 1917[27]
Thorndon North Island Main Trunk — — 24 September 1885 8 June 1937[28]
Waingawa Wairarapa Line — — 30 March 1921[6][16] -
Wainui[i] North Island Main Trunk — — 1 December 1886[6] 3 February 1900[6][29]
Wellington[j] Wairarapa Line — Wellington city centre 1 November 1880[7] 1885[8]

Notes

  • ^ Stations
a Parkside until 1964. Never used for passenger traffic.[8]
b Renamed Manor Park when the Hutt Valley Branch became the main line.[8]
c Demolished in 1938.
d Was known as Dolly Varden (after a ship) until 1960 when local pressure resulted in the area being renamed Mana.[8][30]
e With the closure of the Western Hutt section of the Wairarapa Line and the formation of the Melling Branch from the remainder, Melling station was relocated to the south side of the Melling Link road.
f Replaced by Andrews, to the south.
g Originally Pukerua.
h Thought to have been reopened during WW II to serve the nearby hospital. On or near the site of the Silver Stream Railway's McKirdy station.
i Near Mackays Crossing.
j On closure relocated and later named Lambton.[8]
k Originally Lower Hutt.
  • ^ Dates
  • A date with a question mark means the date is from an ambiguous source or sources.
  • – in the Closed column means the station is still open.
  • ? without a date means that the date is not known, but the station has definitely been opened/closed.

Proposals

The GWRC 2009 Long Term Community Plan (LTCCP) indicates that it is considering introducing user-pays charges to some station carparks where demand exceeds supply. Some stations are being considered for expanded parking facilities where sufficient demand exists and suitable land is available, but necessary station upgrades to accommodate new rolling stock have constrained the amount of funding that can be committed to projects like improved Park-and-Ride facilities.[3]

There are several proposals for new stations to be built along existing lines.

Kapiti Line

GWRC's Western Corridor Plan calls for improvements to rail services in the Kapiti area, including two new stations: Raumati, proposed for completion in 2009, south of Paraparaumu, probably just north of the intersection of State Highway 1 and Poplar Avenue; and Lindale, proposed for completion in 2010, would be part of a larger transport hub north of Paraparaumu. However, a more recent decision by the council to invest its funds and resources in electrification and double-tracking to Waikanae, and the upgrade of Paraparaumu and Waikanae stations, has meant that consideration will now not be given to these new stations before 2010.[31][32] GWRC's passenger transport committee has also recommended that electrification be extended to Waikanae, bringing the existing station there into the Wellington rail network – although the Western Corridor Plan did not envisage this occurring within the next 20 years, work was completed in February 2011.

The following stations have also been proposed, but not approved:

  • between Porirua and Paremata, to serve the new Aotea development;
  • south of Takapu Road, to serve Glenside and other expanding residential areas near Johnsonville;
  • at Mackays Crossing, between Paekākāriki and Raumati (near the site of the former Wainui station);
  • in Tawa No 2 tunnel, to serve Newlands.

There have also been proposals to close either Redwood or Takapu Road, and either Pukerua Bay or Muri,[33] to reduce transit times by reducing the number of stops. The suggestions were not included in the Plan, but Muri station was closed on 30 April 2011.

Hutt Valley Line

Greater Wellington's Hutt Corridor Plan calls for it to "[d]esign and implement extension of electrification and services northward beyond Upper Hutt, including new stations at Timberlea and Cruickshank Road." These stations are not planned for construction until after 2016. A branch line to Wainuiomata has been proposed as recently as the 1970s, but is not planned.

References

  1. ^ "Rail station-upgrade cost check". The Dominion Post. Wellington. 3 September 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  2. ^ CHAPMAN, KATIE (5 July 2011). "$168m Wellington rail package signed". The Dominion Post. Wellington. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
  3. ^ a b KOPP, MICHAEL (19 May 2009). "GW may charge for station carparks". Hutt News. Archived from the original on 22 May 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
  4. ^ a b c Cameron 1976, pp. 293–294.
  5. ^ a b c Churchman 1998, chpt. "Electrified Operations".
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay Scoble 2010.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Cameron 1976, p. 131.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i Hoy 1970, pp. 93–95.
  9. ^ a b c d e f Hoy 1972, p. 36.
  10. ^ a b c d e Hoy 1972, pp. 119–120.
  11. ^ a b Bromby 2003, p. 41.
  12. ^ Bromby 2003, p. 42.
  13. ^ a b c d e Bromby 2003, p. 40.
  14. ^ a b c Hoy 1970, p. 13.
  15. ^ Hoy 1972, pp. 119.
  16. ^ a b Cameron 1976, p. 244.
  17. ^ Cameron 1976, p. 83.
  18. ^ a b Mahoney 1987, p. 102.
  19. ^ Hoy 1970, p. 11.
  20. ^ a b c d e Cameron 1976, p. 170.
  21. ^ Cameron 1976, p. 283.
  22. ^ Cameron 1976, p. 286.
  23. ^ Cameron 1976, pp. 100, 103.
  24. ^ "Station closes for good". Stuff. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  25. ^ DANDO, KRIS (22 March 2011). "Muri station to close". Kapi-Mana News. Porirua. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  26. ^ Cameron 1976, p. 215.
  27. ^ a b Bromby 2003, p. 74.
  28. ^ Mahoney 1987, p. 104.
  29. ^ Hoy 1972, p. 53.
  30. ^ Churchman 1995, p. 27.
  31. ^ Blundell, Kay (15 April 2008). "Railway station plans go on hold". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 14 April 2008. [dead link‍]
  32. ^ "Kapiti Coast railway upgrade details revealed" (Press release). Greater Wellington Regional Council. 14 April 2008. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2008. The future of extra stations at Lindale and Raumati will be determined after 2010 when the benefits of the first tranche of work and subsequent travel patterns are established.
  33. ^ TUCKEY, KAROLINE (23 June 2009). "Station work too costly for regional council". Kapi-Mana News. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2009.

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