Carterton Railway Station

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Carterton
Metlink regional rail
Station statistics
Address Cnr Broadway, Davy and Wheatstone Streets, Carterton
Coordinates 41°1′18″S 175°31′23.89″E / 41.02167°S 175.5233028°E / -41.02167; 175.5233028
Line(s) Wairarapa Line
Structure type Vogel Class 2 Gable
Platforms Single
Tracks 1 main line
1 crossing loop (lifted 2007)
3 road / loop sidings
2 back-shunts (lifted)
Loading bank siding
Stock yard siding (lifted)
Back road siding (partly lifted)
Parking Yes
Bicycle facilities Yes, limited
Baggage check No
Other information
Opened 1 November 1880
Closed 13 October 1986 (freight)
Electrified No
Station code CART
Owned by ONTRACK, leased to Wairarapa Railway Restoration Society
Fare zone 13[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2012)>358 passengers/day[2]
Services
    ONTRACK    
Preceding station   Tranz Metro   Following station
toward Masterton
 Wairarapa Connection
toward Wellington

Carterton Railway Station, in the Wairarapa district of New Zealand, is a single platform railway station in the town of Carterton. It is located at the corner of Broadway, Davy and Wheatstone Streets, near the main shopping precinct on State Highway 2 (SH 2). It is on the Wairarapa Line, three stops and 17 minutes' journey time to Masterton, eight stops and 1 hour 19 minutes journey time to Wellington, on Wairarapa Connection trains.

This station retains its original station building (built in 1879-80), freight yard and loading bank, though freight is no longer accepted. A ticket office operates in the station building prior to the departure of commuter trains bound for Wellington. Heritage rolling stock is stored in the yard.

The Carterton Railway Museum, operated from the station building by the Wairarapa Railway Restoration Society, is open every Sunday between 10am and 4pm.

History

Construction of buildings for use by railway staff and the station itself was underway in May 1880, with the station master’s house (used initially as the resident engineer’s office), followed a month or two later by the station building.

The first train to depart was a special goods train carrying a load of timber, on 5 July 1880. It was another three months before goods consignments were accepted, on 11 October 1880, with the first goods train running to Masterton two days later. The first passenger train ran on 30 October 1880. The line between Woodside and Masterton was officially opened on 1 November 1880.

In 1884 Carterton was recorded as having a five-room station building with a 60-by-30-foot (18.3 by 9.1 m) goods shed and watering facilities. Cattle and sheep yards and a loading bank were installed prior to 1890. There were three loops, holding 56, 23, and 9 wagons; a goods shed road holding 9; and a siding behind it with capacity of 32. In 1884 the station sold 6,530 passenger tickets, and handled 13,610 tons of goods outward and 1,583 tons inward and 20,875 head of livestock, mostly sheep and mostly outward.

Carterton was a manned station until 1989 when the last staff positions were withdrawn. This move led to a decline in the condition of the station buildings, a situation which in part prompted the formation of the Wairarapa Railway Restoration Society. The goods shed and some unused track which was used for marshalling purposes were removed in the late 1980s.

The Society has saved the Waingawa station building in the early 1990s, its now located beside the loading bank in the Carterton Station Yard.

Services

There are five Wairarapa Connection trains each way Monday to Thursday, six Friday and two Saturday and Sunday. There are occasional excursions, such as the Daffodil Express and the Tararua Tourer run by Mainline Steam.

Gallery

  • Station from yard, 2006.

  • Four-wheel goods van and stock wagon, 2006

  • Heritage rolling stock, 2006

  • Platform looking north-east, 2006

  • Platform looking south-west, 2006

  • Loading Bank, 2006

  • Waingawa Railway Station, beside Loading Bank, 2006

  • Museum and Restoration Society sign as viewed 2006

  • Museum and Restoration Society Sign as viewed 2008

  • Wairarapa Connection at Carterton, DCP4818 and SW set, 2007

  • DC4605 at Carterton station with Waiararapa Connection, 2007

  • Carterton Railway Station, 2007

  • Carteton Railway Station at night, 2007

  • Carterton Railway Station, 2007

See also

Preceded by
Dalefield Railway Station		 Stations on the Wairarapa Line Succeeded by
Clareville Railway Station

References

  • 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. 

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Metlink. "Text description of fare zone boundaries". Greater Wellington Regional Council. Retrieved 18 January 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Results of survey of Wairarapa train passengers". Greater Wellington Regional Council. Retrieved 15 October 2013. 

External links

Stations on the Wairarapa Line
Original route
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  • Bold indicates stations at which the Wairarapa Connection stops
  • Italics indicates stations that have closed to passengers
Wairarapa Connection passenger train stops (Wairarapa Railway)
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