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 Rebuilt Upper Hutt railway station, May 2016 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Station Crescent, Upper Hutt, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°7′34.11″S 175°4′13.77″E / 41.1261417°S 175.0704917°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Greater Wellington Regional Council | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Wairarapa Line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Single, Island with bay platform (southern end) | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | Main lines: 1 Crossing loops: 1 Sidings: 1 (Bay Platform) Row sidings: 5 (EMU storage in fenced area) Private sidings: 1 (to Parapine) | |||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus services | |||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | UPPE (Metlink) UPH (KiwiRail Network) | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 7[1] | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1 February 1876 | |||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1955 2015 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 24 July 1955 | |||||||||||||||
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Upper Hutt railway station is a suburban railway station serving central Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The station is on the Wairarapa Line, 32.4 km (20.1 mi) north of Wellington, and is served by Transdev Wellington on behalf of the Greater Wellington Regional Council. The station is the northern terminus for the electrified Hutt Valley Line to and from Wellington. The diesel-hauled Wairarapa Connection stops at Upper Hutt on its route between Wellington and Masterton.
The station opened with the line from Wellington in February 1876, and was substantially rebuilt in 1955 with electrification to Upper Hutt. In 2015, the station was upgraded with a new station building and refurbished platforms. The station has two platforms, a side platform on the main line and a bay platform on a spur off the main line. Overnight storage of electric multiple units is provided in fenced sidings adjacent to the station.
As part of the 2020-2021 Wellington Metro Rail Upgrade with double tracking of the single track section from Trentham to Upper Hutt (as proposed in the 2011 – 2012 Regional Rail Plan (RRP)[2] handling of two trains at the same time will be improved by adding two new crossovers from the main platform to the inner loop track (there is also a second or outer loop track). The inner loop track will be extended to the north with a new north end crossover to it so that long Wairarapa log trains can be ”parked” out of the way of passenger trains.[3][4]
- ^ Metlink. "Text description of fare zone boundaries". Greater Wellington Regional Council. Archived from the original on 18 January 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ "Regional Rail Plan" (PDF). Greater Wellington Regional Council. November 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
- ^ "Wellington Rail Upgrades". The New Zealand Railway Observer. Vol. 76, no. 6. February–March 2020. pp. 251–252.
- ^ "Wellington Timetable Changes and Infrastructure Upgrades". The New Zealand Railway Observer. Vol. 75, no. 2. June–July 2018. pp. 62, 63.