Ngauranga railway station

Ngauranga
Metlink regional rail
General information
LocationHutt Road, Ngauranga, Wellington, New Zealand
Coordinates41°14′55.20″S 174°48′48.88″E / 41.2486667°S 174.8135778°E / -41.2486667; 174.8135778
Owned byGreater Wellington Regional Council
Line(s)Melling Line
Hutt Valley Line
PlatformsSingle island
TracksMain line (2)
Construction
ParkingNo
Bicycle facilitiesNo
Other information
Fare zone3[1]
History
Opened20 April 1874
Rebuilt1966
Electrified14 September 1953
Previous namesNgahauranga
Services
Preceding station Transdev Wellington Following station
Petone
towards Melling
Melling Line Wellington
Terminus
Petone
towards Upper Hutt
Hutt Valley Line

Ngauranga railway station is a single island platform railway station in the mainly industrial and commercial suburb of Ngauranga on the Wairarapa Line in Wellington, New Zealand. It is on the Wellington suburban rail network and is served by Melling Line trains and some only Hutt Valley Line trains. Wairarapa Connection trains pass this station but do not stop. All trains are run by Transdev as part of the Metlink network.

Ngauranga formerly handled freight traffic, but is now used exclusively by commuter passenger trains. It is next to a waste disposal facility and at the bottom of the Ngauranga Gorge, next to the major road junction where State Highway 2 joins State Highway 1.

The North Island Main Trunk line crossing the Hutt Road to enter the first tunnel of the Tawa Flat deviation. Ngauranga station is in the background, alongside State Highway 1.
  1. ^ Metlink. "Text description of fare zone boundaries". Greater Wellington Regional Council. Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2007.