Ngaio | |||||||||||
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 Ngaio railway station, looking North (2008). | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Collingwood Street, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°15′3.53″S 174°46′18.58″E / 41.2509806°S 174.7718278°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Greater Wellington Regional Council | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Johnsonville Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Dual side | ||||||||||
| Tracks | Main line (1) Crossing loop (1) | ||||||||||
| Connections | Bus services | ||||||||||
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| Parking | 25 spaces | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 3[1] | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 21 September 1885 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 1 September 1964 (freight) | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1967, c2010 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 2 July 1938 | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Crofton | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Ngaio railway station is one of eight railway stations on the Johnsonville Branch, a commuter branch railway north of Wellington in New Zealand's North Island, and serves the suburb of Ngaio. The station was erected and operated by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR) on their line from Wellington to Longburn. The area served by this station used to be called Crofton, until the suburb was renamed to Ngaio in 1908 to avoid confusion with Crofton, a suburb of Marton in the Manawatu.[2] From the acquisition of the WMR by the New Zealand Railways Department in 1908 until the opening of the Tawa Flat deviation in 1937, the station was on the North Island Main Trunk railway. On 2 July 1938, the truncated section of the line to Johnsonville became the Johnsonville Branch.
Matangi electric multiple unit trains are operated under the Metlink brand through this station in both directions to Johnsonville (to the north) and Wellington (to the south).
- ^ "Text description of fare zone boundaries". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
- ^ Churchman, Geoffrey B. (1998) [1988]. "North Island Main Trunk". The Story of The Wellington to Johnsonville Railway (Second ed.). Wellington: IPL Books. ISBN 0-908876-05-X.
In the 1920s a Main Trunk express stops at Ngaio Station (known as "Crofton Station" until 1908 when the suburb was renamed). The signal box survived into the 1960s.