Ngaio railway station

Ngaio
Metlink commuter rail
Ngaio railway station, looking North (2008).
General information
LocationCollingwood Street, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand
Coordinates41°15′3.53″S 174°46′18.58″E / 41.2509806°S 174.7718278°E / -41.2509806; 174.7718278
Owned byGreater Wellington Regional Council
Line(s)Johnsonville Line
PlatformsDual side
TracksMain line (1)
Crossing loop (1)
ConnectionsBus services
Construction
Parking25 spaces
Other information
Fare zone3[1]
History
Opened21 September 1885
Closed1 September 1964 (freight)
Rebuilt1967, c2010
Electrified2 July 1938
Previous namesCrofton
Services
Preceding station Transdev Wellington Following station
Awarua Street
towards Johnsonville
Johnsonville Line Crofton Downs
towards Wellington
Former Ngaio yard layout
to Johnsonville
Collingwood Street
runaway siding
signal box
runaway siding
to Wellington

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).

  1. ^ "Text description of fare zone boundaries". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
  2. ^ 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.