Takapu Road Railway Station

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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.

Contents 1 Services 2 History 3 External links 4 References

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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]

[edit] External links

• Photos of Takapu Road Railway Station

[edit] References

		ONTRACK
Preceding station		Tranz Metro		Following station
Redwood toward Paraparaumu		Paraparaumu Line		Kaiwharawhara toward Wellington