Mount Albert Train Station

Mount Albert Train Station
MAXX Urban rail

Looking north over the platform

Station statistics

Address

Auckland City

Lines

Western Line

Levels

Platforms

Island platform

Tracks

Mainline (2)

Parking

Bicycle facilities

Baggage check

Other information

Opened

1880

Electrified

Owned by

ONTRACK and ARTA

Traffic

Passengers (2009)

1,448 passengers/day

Services

Preceding station		MAXX (Veolia)		Following station
		ONTRACK
Baldwin Avenue toward Britomart (Auckland)		Western Line		Avondale toward Waitakere

Mount Albert Railway Station is in the suburb of Mount Albert on the Western Line of the Auckland railway network, near Unitec, a local tertiary education provider, and is popular with Unitec students. It has an island platform and is reached by a footbridge from Carrington Road and a subway between Willcott Street and New North Road.

In 2010, significant discussion, including during the run-up to the local body elections, considered the station (and especially its access-ways and weather shelters) as dilapidated and in need of renewal.^[1] Also particularly criticised were the run-down shop rear areas fronting the train stations from the New North Road side. A former Auckland City councilor suggested that a green wall would offer an option to hide these unsightly areas behind low-cost, low-maintenance planting.^[2]

History

1880: Opened as one of the original stations on the North Auckland Line.^[3]
1908: A signal box was added.^[3]
1909: A new station building was built, after the previous one was destroyed by fire.^[3]
1920s: A siding to Mount Albert Quarry from the station is closed.^[3]
1966: The line was double-tracked and much of the station's infrastructure (including the signal box) was removed. The signal box is preserved at MOTAT.^[3]

Bus transfers

The following bus services pass this station, allowing easy transfer:

North-bound buses via New North Road^[4]
- 210-212 to Midtown
- 223-224 to Midtown via St Lukes

South-bound buses via New North Road^[4]
- 210 to Avondale
- 211 to Avondale and Rosebank Road
- 212 to Avondale, Rosebank Road and Patiki Road
- 223 to Avondale and New Lynn
- 224 to Avondale, New Lynn and Henderson

West-bound buses via Carrington Road
- 007 to Pt Chevalier ^[5]
- 010 to Ponsonby via Pt Chevalier ^[6]
- 043 to Downtown via Pt Chevalier ^[5]

East-bound buses via Mount Albert Road
- 007 to St Heliers via St Lukes and Glen Innes (see note 2) ^[5]
- 010 to Onehunga ^[6]

Note 1: Some route 210 services terminate at Mount Albert, and do not continue to Avondale.^[4]
Note 2: Some route 007 services terminate at Glen Innes, and do not continue to St Heliers.

References

^ Davison, Isaac (14 September 2010). "Super City: Transport cuts to heart of the matter". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10673151. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
^ "The 'Green Wall of Mt Albert'". Auckland City Harbour News. 3 September 2010. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/auckland-city-harbour-news/4087648/The-Green-Wall-of-Mt-Albert. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Railway Stations of Auckland's Western Line (2004) by Sean Millar
^ ^a ^b ^c Timetable for routes 102, 107, 200, 205, 210-213, 215-216, 219 and 223-224
^ ^a ^b ^c Timetable for route 007
^ ^a ^b Timetable for routes 010 and 011

Railway stations on the Western Line, Auckland (full list)

Britomart • Newmarket • Grafton • Mt Eden • Kingsland • Morningside • Baldwin Ave • Mt Albert • Avondale • New Lynn • Fruitvale Road • Glen Eden • Sunnyvale • Henderson • Sturges Road • Ranui • Swanson • Waitakere