Parnell Train Station
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Parnell
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Parnell Railway Station from the citybound platform. The heritage Newmarket station building is on the southbound platform and is undergoing refurbishment.
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| Location | Cheshire Street, Parnell, Auckland | |||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°51′19″S 174°46′40″E / 36.855336°S 174.777760°E | |||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Auckland Transport, KiwiRail | |||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Newmarket Line | |||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platform | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | Mainline (2) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Platform levels | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 12 March 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 25kV AC | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers | 2,900/week | |||||||||||||||||||
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Parnell Railway Station is a station serving the inner-city suburb of Parnell in Auckland, New Zealand. It is situated on the Newmarket Line, approximately 600m north of Parnell Tunnel, and is located in the Waipapa Valley adjacent to Auckland Domain. It serves Southern Line trains, and, in evenings and weekends only, Western Line trains. Onehunga Line trains currently pass through the station without stopping.
The station opened on 12 March 2017 with relatively basic facilities and initially serving a limited number of lines. Future development will involve building a pedestrian bridge across the tracks to provide step-free access to the platforms, and constructing several new paths to provide more direct access to Auckland Domain, Parnell Town Centre and the University of Auckland.
The station will eventually serve all three lines which pass through it once the Sarawia Street level crossing in Newmarket is removed, which will remove the signalling constraints which currently affect the line. A bridge will be built to replace the level crossing, linking Laxon Terrace with nearby Cowie Street.
After a plan to lease part of the area as a bus depot was cancelled,KiwiRail and Auckland Council were asked in 2010 by the outgoing Auckland Regional Council to make an early start on construction of the proposed station, which was to cost $13 million or more, to ensure that there would not need to be costly extra work after the electrification of the line as part of the Auckland railway electrification. It was proposed that several million dollars saved during the upgrade of the Newmarket station be allocated to this new station.
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