Sylvia Park Railway Station
Sylvia Park | ||||||||||||||||
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| Auckland Transport Urban rail | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Mount Wellington Highway | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°54′53″S 174°50′33″E / 36.914661°S 174.842624°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | KiwiRail and Auckland Transport | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Eastern Line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | Mainline (2) | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 590,678 | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | No | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 2007 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 25kV AC, electrified 17 June 2014. | |||||||||||||||
| Traffic | ||||||||||||||||
| Passengers (2011) | 1,679 passengers/weekday[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Services | ||||||||||||||||
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Sylvia Park Railway Station is on the Eastern Line of the passenger rail network in Auckland, New Zealand. It serves Sylvia Park mall and the surrounding suburb of Mount Wellington.
New Station
The new Sylvia Park station was funded by the builders of the mall[2] and built by ARTNL/ARTA. The new station opened to the public on Monday 2 July 2007.[3][4] The station cost NZ$5 million to build.[4]
The new station has a fairly high patronage, mainly people going shopping at the new Sylvia Park Shopping Centre.
Previous station
An earlier station was opened at the site in 1930 and closed during the World War II period (1940-1945), due to the American government buying the land next to the railway and using it for army sheds.
Another station with the same name existed approximately 1 km west of this site. Passengers were mostly for the adjacent Westfield Freezing Works until 1986 when it was closed due to lack of patronage.
Services
Transdev Auckland, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services to Britomart, Manukau and Papakura via Sylvia Park. Until 7 December 2014, the basic weekday off-peak timetable is:
- 3 tph to Britomart
- 2 tph to Papakura
- 1 tph to Manukau
From 8 December 2014, a new timetable will be introduced. All Eastern Line trains will now terminate at Manukau; passengers heading towards Papakura will need to transfer to the Southern Line at Otahuhu or Puhinui. The new basic weekday off-peak timetable will be:[5]
- 3 tph to Britomart
- 3 tph to Manukau
References
- ↑ Auckland Transport Board Meeting (20 November 2012) Agenda Item 10(i) "Rail Electrification Extension" p. 16
- ↑ "Kiwi Income Properties Media Release: Railway station gets the green light at Sylvia Park". Retrieved March 2007.
- ↑ Dearnaley, Mathew (2 July 2007). "Next stop, shopping ... big centre gets its own rail station". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- 1 2 The New Zealand Herald (28 June 2007). "Train temptations". Retrieved 2007-06-28.
- ↑ "Eastern Line timetable from 8 December 2014" (PDF). Auckland Transport. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
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