Redwood Railway Station
Redwood | ||||||||||||||||
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 Redwood railway station, looking south from the northern (up) platform. | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tawa Street, Redwood, Wellington, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°10.454′S 174°49.629′E / 41.174233°S 174.827150°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Tranz Metro | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | North Island Main Trunk | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Dual side, staggered | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | Mainline (2) | |||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 15 December 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | June 1940 | |||||||||||||||
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Redwood Railway Station on the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand, is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT). It is double tracked with staggered side platforms; the up platform (north, towards Waikanae) is on the north side of the Tawa Street level crossing, the down platform (towards Wellington) on the south.
Services
Redwood is served by Kapiti Line commuter trains operated by Tranz Metro under the Metlink brand every 30 minutes off-peak, more frequently during peak periods. Some peak services run express between Porirua and Wellington and do not stop at Redwood.[1]
Services are operated by electric multiple units of the EM/ET class and FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, both pass through the station but do not stop.
Temporary Closure
The station was closed for about four months, from 8 February to 3 May 2010, and revovated at a cost in excess of $1 million. New passenger shelters were constructed, and both platforms were demolished and completely rebuilt as higher, 170 metre long, platforms.[2][3]
History
Redwood is one of only two stations on the Paraparaumu Line not on track built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR); the other is Takapu Road to the south. The WMR built the original route of the NIMT between Wellington and Longburn and it was purchased by the New Zealand Railways Department in December 1908. The original route between Wellington and Porirua via Johnsonville, now truncated to the Johnsonville Line, was bypassed in the 1930s by the Tawa Flat deviation. Redwood is on the northern section of this deviation. The deviation opened for freight on 24 July 1935, for passengers on 19 June 1937, and was electrified in June 1940, but Redwood did not open until 15 December 1963.[4] The Redwood site is close to the location of the first Tawa Flat Railway Station near the junction of Tawa and Duncan Streets, from 1885 to 1937.[5]
References
- Rails through the Valley: The story of the construction and use of the railway lines through Tawa by Bruce Murray and David Parsons (2008, Tawa Historical Society) ISBN 978-0-473-14410-4
- ↑ Metlink. "Paraparaumu Line timetable". Retrieved 30 October 2007.
- ↑ "Redwood Station In Line For $1 Million Upgrade". Voxy. 7 December 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
- ↑ Murray and Parsons, p. 226
- ↑ John Yonge, ed. (1993). New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas (fourth ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. p. 16.
- ↑ Hoy, D.G. (1970). Rails out of the Capital. NZRLS. pp. 24, 75.