Kaiwharawhara Railway Station
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Kaiwharawhara
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| Location | Westminster Street, Kaiwharawhara, Wellington, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°15′36.18″S 174°47′28.92″E / 41.2600500°S 174.7913667°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Greater Wellington Regional Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Melling Line Hutt Valley Line Kapiti Line |
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| Platforms | Island (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | Main line (4) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | No | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 20-04-1874 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 23-11-2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1911, 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | June 1940 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Kaiwarra | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kaiwharawhara railway station was a railway station on the North Island Main Trunk and the Wairarapa Line in Wellington, New Zealand that closed in 2013. It was the first station north of Wellington, and prior to its closure it was served by trains operated by Tranz Metro as part of the Metlink network on the Melling Line, the Hutt Valley Line and the Kapiti Line.
Kaiwharawhara Station was temporarily closed on 13 June 2013, because of safety concerns about the pedestrian overbridge, which was found by visual inspection carried out by the Regional Council to have advanced corrosion. The station was closed permanently on 21 November 2013 and the overbridge was dismantled in March 2014.
Kaiwharawhara had a unique platform arrangement for New Zealand. Looking north, the left-hand island platform was for up trains, the right-hand platform for down trains. The inner faces were used by Kapiti Line services on the NIMT, the outer faces by Melling Line and Hutt Valley Line services on the Wairarapa Line.
The Wairarapa Line reached the south bank of the Kaiwarra Stream in July 1873, and this section of line opened on 14 April 1874. Trains initially ran non-stop from Wellington, but on 20 April Kaiwarra opened as a stop.
Kaiwarra received its first building in late 1875. About 1879 the station received a class 6 passenger shelter costing £160. It did not have either crossing loops or sidings.
Early in the 20th century it was decided to duplicate the line between Wellington and Lower Hutt. Preparatory work was started in 1903 with construction commencing the following year, reaching Kaiwarra in 1909 and Wellington on 4 April 1911. A new station building designed by George Troup was erected in 1911.
In the mid-1930s, in conjunction with the construction of the Tawa Flat Deviation and the opening of the new Wellington station on the 19 June 1937, and the closure of the old Thorndon and Lambton stations, new up and down mains were laid through Kaiwarra to the east of the existing Hutt Valley main lines for the Paekakariki Line (now the Kapiti Line). The Kaiwarra signal box was dismantled and the old railway station replaced with two new narrow island platforms with simple passenger shelters. The western platform was for the Hutt Valley line and the eastern platform for the Paekakariki line.
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