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| Location | Westminster Street, Kaiwharawhara, Wellington, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°15′36.18″S 174°47′28.92″E / 41.2600500°S 174.7913667°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Greater Wellington Regional Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Melling Line Hutt Valley Line Kapiti Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Island (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | Main line (4) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 2[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 20-04-1874 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 23-11-2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1911, 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | June 1940 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Kaiwarra | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kaiwharawhara railway station, a former railway station on the North Island Main Trunk and the Wairarapa Line in Wellington in New Zealand, closed in 2013.[2] It was the first station north of Wellington, serving the early suburb of Kaiwharawhara. Prior to its closure it was served by trains operated by Tranz Metro as part of the Metlink network on the Melling Line, the Hutt Valley Line and the Kapiti Line.
Kaiwharawhara Station closed temporarily on 13 June 2013 due to safety concerns about the pedestrian overbridge, which a visual inspection carried out by the Regional Council found to have advanced corrosion.[3] The station closed permanently on 21 November 2013 and the overbridge was dismantled in March 2014.[4]
Kaiwharawhara had a unique platform arrangement for New Zealand.[5] Looking north, the left-hand island platform was for up trains, the right-hand platform for down trains. The inner faces were used by Kapiti Line services on the NIMT, the outer faces by Melling Line and Hutt Valley Line services on the Wairarapa Line.
- ^ Metlink. "Text description of fare zone boundaries". Greater Wellington Regional Council. Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2007.
- ^ "Notice of final decision to assign place names". New Zealand Gazette - Te Kahiti o Aotearoa. New Zealand Gazette Office at the Department of Internal Affairs. 29 August 1996. p. 2470. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
6. North Island Main Trunk From Wellington to Auckland ... 28. Wairarapa Line From Wellington to Woodville ...
- ^ "Kaiwharawhara Station Closed". Metlink. 13 June 2013. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ^ "Station closes for good". stuff.co.nz. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
- ^ Hoy, Douglas G. (1970). "The Railway Today". Rails Out Of The Capital: Suburban Railways, Wellington. Wellington: The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. p. 77.
The station with its two long island platforms and four parallel running tracks is the only one of its kind in the Dominion.