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'''Takapu Road Railway Station''' is located on the [[North Island Main Trunk Railway]] (NIMT) and is part of the suburban rail network of [[Wellington]], [[New Zealand]]. It is [[double track]]ed and has a [[side platform]] layout. It serves the suburbs of [[Redwood, New Zealand|Redwood]] and [[Grenada North]]. |
'''Takapu Road Railway Station''' is located on the [[North Island Main Trunk Railway]] (NIMT) and is part of the suburban rail network of [[Wellington]], [[New Zealand]]. It is [[double track]]ed and has a [[side platform]] layout. It serves the suburbs of [[Redwood, New Zealand|Redwood]] and [[Grenada North]]. |
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Revision as of 01:39, 24 June 2008
Takapu Road | |
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| Metlink suburban rail | |
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| Owned by | Tranz Metro |
| Platforms | Dual Side |
| Tracks | Mainline (2) |
| Construction | |
| Parking | Yes |
| History | |
| Opened | 19 June 1937 |
| Electrified | June 1940 |
| Services | |
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Takapu Road Railway Station is located on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) and is part of the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand. It is double tracked and has a side platform layout. It serves the suburbs of Redwood and Grenada North.
Services
Takapu Road is served by Paraparaumu Line commuter trains operated by Tranz Metro under the Metlink brand. Trains run every thirty minutes off-peak, and more frequently during peak periods. A number of peak services run express between Porirua and Wellington and thus do not stop at Takapu Road.[1]
The commuter trains are operated by electric multiple units. These were formerly DM/D class units but are now almost always units of the EM/ET class. Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Overlander, both pass through the station but do not stop.
History
Takapu Road is one of only two stations on the Paraparaumu Line not built on track formerly operated by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR); the other station is Redwood immediately to the north. The WMR built the original route of the NIMT between Wellington and Longburn and operated it until purchased by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) in December 1908. The original route between Wellington and Porirua ran via Johnsonville and now operates in truncated form as the Johnsonville Branch. It was bypassed in the 1930s by the Tawa Flat deviation, and 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 electrified in June 1940.[2]
External links
References
- ^ Metlink, Paraparaumu Line timetable, accessed 30 October 2007.
- ^ John Yonge (editor), New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas, fourth edition (Essex: Quail Map Company, 1993), 16.