Maymorn Railway Station
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Maymorn Metlink regional rail |
|||||||||||||||||
 Maymorn railway station main platform, looking west. |
|||||||||||||||||
| Station statistics | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Address | Parkes Line Road, Maymorn | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | |||||||||||||||||
| Lines | Wairarapa Connection | ||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Dual side platforms | ||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | Main line (1) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes (behind main platform, access from Maymorn Road) | ||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||||||||
| Baggage check | No | ||||||||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1955-11-03 | ||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | No | ||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Tranz Metro | ||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 8[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Formerly | Mangaroa | ||||||||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||
Maymorn railway station is a twin platform, rural railway station serving the small settlement of Maymorn on the Maymorn Plateau, east of Upper Hutt, in New Zealand’s North Island. It is serviced by the Wairarapa Connection, and sees five services each way Monday to Thursday, six on Friday and two on Saturday and Sunday.
This station was known as Mangaroa until receiving its present name in 1994.[2]
Contents |
[edit] History
This station opened on Thursday, 3 November 1955 when the Rimutaka Deviation and Rimutaka Tunnel were officially opened for traffic. The ground on which the station is located was created using fill extracted during the construction of the Rimutaka Tunnel. During construction of the tunnel, a crossing loop long enough to accommodate 116 wagons and a temporary connection to the now closed section of the Wairarapa Line were built to enable work trains to bring in materials and supplies.[3]
As part of the Wairarapa station upgrade program to accommodate the new SW-class carriages for the Wairarapa Connection, this station was renovated in 2007 with works completed by the end of August.[4]
[edit] Today
The crossing loop was removed in June 1994[2], and though the second platform remains, it is unused. There is a passenger shelter on the northern (main line) platform, a couple of equipment buildings, and a shed for a surfaceman's trolley.[5]
From the station, an embankment on which the old line ran can be seen just past the end of Old School Road, and now has a fence line running along its apex. Hikers can access the old railway formation using an access road which starts near the station, from the corner of Maymorn Road and Parkes Line Road. At the top of the access road, where it meets the formation, the remains of the Dry Creek Gully bridge which carried the line over a washout, are to the right but obscured by dense foliage.
[edit] Future Plans
On 14 July 2005, the Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust secured a 20-year heritage lease on land at the Maymorn railway yards from ONTRACK. The trust proposes to reinstate the world-famous Rimutaka Incline, with its base of operations established at Maymorn, and is currently working through stage one of the project including preparing the yard, construction of buildings, fencing and platelaying. This will also include a rail connection of approximately 1.6 km in length between the station and the original railway formation, and they propose to lay their own line from their station over the double-wide Maymorn Road overpass which currently only carries a single track.
[edit] External links
- Passenger service timetables from Metlink and Tranz Metro.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Metlink. Text description of fare zone boundaries. Greater Wellington Regional Council. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
- ^ a b Castle, David (2006-11-12). Upper Hutt - Featherston Signalling History. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.
- ^ Cameron, Walter Norman (1976). A Line Of Railway: The Railway Conquest of the Rimutakas. Wellington: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. ISBN 0-908573-00-6.
- ^ "Rail upgrades near end", Wairarapa Times-Age, 2007-09-13. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.
- ^ Millar, Sean (2006). Marton to Waikanae & Maymorn: Surviving Provincial Passenger Railway Stations of the Lower North Island. Waitakere: Sean Millar. ISBN 0-908726-45-7.
