Manor Park Railway Station, New Zealand

Manor Park
Metlink suburban rail
Location Golf Road, Manor Park.
Coordinates 41°09′22.87″S 174°58′44.07″E / 41.1563528°S 174.9789083°E
Owned by Greater Wellington Regional Council
Line(s) Wairarapa Line
Platforms Island
Tracks Main line (2)
Construction
Parking Yes
Other information
Station code MANO
Fare zone 6 [1]
History
Opened 1 March 1954
Electrified 24 July 1955
Previous names Haywards
Services
  ONTRACK  
Preceding station   Tranz Metro   Following station
toward Upper Hutt
Hutt Valley Line
toward Wellington

Manor Park Railway Station is an island platform urban railway station in Manor Park, a suburb of the city of Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand's North Island. It is on the Hutt Valley Line section of the Wairarapa Line. This station is served by Tranz Metro's electric multiple unit trains.

In 1954 the Hutt Valley Branch became the main line, and the Melling-Haywards section was closed. A new station was erected at Haywards (now called Manor Park) where the new line from Pomare joined the existing line north. The old Haywards Railway Station station had been opened (with Belmont Railway Station) on 15 December 1875.[2]

The station is to get a new "park and ride" car park with a linking pedestrian overbridge as part of the new $42 million interchange south of the station between State Highway 2 and State Highway 58 over Haywards. Work on the interchange is to commence in 2015.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Metlink. "Text description of fare zone boundaries". Greater Wellington Regional Council.
  2. ↑ Hoy, D.G. Rails out of the Capital pp. 15, 94 (Note A) (NZRLS, 1970)
  3. ↑ "Fast track for new $42m interchange". Stuff/Fairfax. 14 March 2015.

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