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| type=[[Public transport in Wellington|Metlink]] [[suburban rail]]
| image= Takapu Road railway station 01.JPG
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| address=Boscobel Lane, Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand
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| electrified=June 1940
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'''Takapu Road Railwayrailway Stationstation''' is on the suburban rail network of [[Wellington]], [[New Zealand]], on the [[Kapiti Line|Kapiti]] section of the [[North Island Main Trunk Railway]] (NIMT). It is [[double track]]ed with [[side platform]]s. It serves the suburbs of [[Redwood, Wellington|Redwood]] and [[Grenada North]], and the rural [[Takapu Valley]].
== Services ==
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Travel times by train are twelve minutes to Wellington, nine minutes to Porirua, and forty-eight minutes to Waikanae.<ref name= metlinklinden />
▲Services are operated by [[electric multiple unit]]s of the [[New Zealand EM class electric multiple unit|EM/ET class]] and [[New Zealand FP class electric multiple unit|FT/FP class]] (Matangi). Two [[diesel locomotive|diesel-hauled]] carriage trains, the [[Capital Connection]] and the [[Northern Explorer]], both pass through the station but do not stop.
Trains run every twenty minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night.<ref name= metlinklinden /> Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae stopping at Takapu Road ran every thirty minutes<ref>metlink ''Kapity Train Line'' timetable effective from 20 January 2016</ref> but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.
In October 2014 Metlink announced that a further 60 "Park and Ride" parking places would be available at the station during the week. <ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.metlink.org.nz/news/more-weekday-carparking-at-takapu-road-station-october-2014/ |title= More weekday parking |date=20 October 2014|accessdate=25 May 2015|publisher= Metlink}}</ref> ▼
▲In October 2014 , Metlink announced that a further 60 "Park and Ride" parking places would be available at the station during the week. <ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.metlink.org.nz/news/more-weekday-carparking-at-takapu-road-station-october-2014/ |title= More weekday parking |date=20 October 2014|accessdate=25 May 2015|publisher= Metlink}}</ref>
== History ==
Takapu Road is one of only twothree stations on the Kapiti Line not on track built by the [[Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company]] (WMR); the other istwo are [[Redwood Railwayrailway Stationstation|Redwood]] immediately to the north, and [[Tawa railway station|Tawa]] adjacent to the original WMR built station. The WMR built the original route of the NIMT between Wellington and [[Longburn]] and it was purchased by the [[New Zealand Railways Department]] (NZR) in December 1908. The original route between Wellington and Porirua, via [[Johnsonville, New Zealand|Johnsonville]] and now truncated to the [[Johnsonville Branch|Johnsonville Line]], was bypassed in the 1930s by the [[Tawa Flat deviation]]. Takapu Road is on the northern section of this deviation. The deviation opened for freight traffic on 24 July 1935 but Takapu Road did not open until passenger services began on 19 June 1937. The line was [[railway electrification system|electrified]] in June 1940.<ref>John Yonge (editor), ''New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas'', fourth edition (Exeter: Quail Map Company, 1993), 16.</ref>
According to Hoy:<ref>Hoy, D.G. ''Rails out of the Capital'' ([[NZRLS]], 1970]) p. 74 </ref>
:Takapu Road station was built on private land. The station, and the fact that all but a few suburban trains would stop there, was part of the agreement of passing through. It is only in recent years that extra passengers have begun using the station as more homes are built in the district.
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.tawalink.com/takapu_road_station.html Photos of Takapu Road Railway Station]
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