Takapu Road Railway Station
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Takapu Road
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| Location | Boscobel Lane, Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°11′6.94″S 174°49′41.63″E / 41.1852611°S 174.8282306°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Tranz Metro | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | North Island Main Trunk | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Dual side | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | Mainline (2) | |||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 19 June 1937 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | June 1940 | |||||||||||||||
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Takapu Road Railway Station is on the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand, on the Kapiti section of the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT). It is double tracked with side platforms. It serves the suburbs of Redwood and Grenada North.
Takapu Road is served by Kapiti Line commuter trains operated by Tranz Metro under the Metlink brand every 30 minutes off-peak, and more frequently during peak periods. Some peak services to Waikanae run express between Porirua and Wellington and do not stop at Takapu Road.
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.
In October 2014 Metlink announced that a further 60 "Park and Ride" parking places would be available at the station during the week.
Takapu Road is one of only two stations on the Kapiti Line not on track built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR); the other is Redwood immediately to the north. The WMR built the original route of the NIMT between Wellington and Longburn and it was purchased by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) in December 1908. The original route between Wellington and Porirua, via Johnsonville and now truncated to the Johnsonville Line, was bypassed in the 1930s by the Tawa Flat deviation. Takapu Road is on the northern section of this deviation. The deviation opened for freight traffic on 24 July 1935 but Takapu Road did not open until passenger services began on 19 June 1937. The line was electrified in June 1940.
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