Westfield Railway Station
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Westfield
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| Auckland Transport Urban rail | |
Westfield Train Station
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| Location | Westfield, New Zealand |
| Coordinates | 36°56.3′S 174°49.9′E / 36.9383°S 174.8317°E |
| Owned by | Auckland Transport |
| Line(s) |
Eastern Line Southern Line |
| Platforms | Island platform |
| Tracks | Mainline (2) |
| Construction | |
| Platform levels | 1 |
| Parking | No |
| Bicycle facilities | No |
| Other information | |
| Station code | WSF |
| History | |
| Opened | June 1875 |
| Closed | 12 March 2017 |
| Electrified | 25kV AC |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers (2011) | 354 passengers/weekday |
Westfield Railway Station was a station of the Auckland railway network in New Zealand. The station closed to all services on 12 March 2017, following an announcement by Auckland Transport on 17 January 2017, because fewer than 330 passengers used it daily and it required a costly upgrade.
The station was 400 metres south of Westfield Junction, where the Eastern and Southern Lines converge. It therefore served both lines. It had an island platform layout and was reached from a pedestrian overbridge at the end of Portage Road. The overbridge also spans the adjacent Westfield marshalling yards and gives access to KiwiRail's operations centre and locomotive facility.
Westfield station was opened during the expansion of Auckland's suburban railway network; on June 1875 for goods and on 29 August 1887 for passengers. The original station building was just a wooden shelter on the platform. Mount Richmond Domain is nearby. The new station gave access to a shallow bay on Manukau Harbour, which became a popular picnic spot. In 1904 the station was at the western end of Portage Road, Otahuhu; which marks the narrowest point of the Auckland isthmus.
Westfield became a junction station between the North Island Main Trunk and the North Auckland Line when the Westfield deviation (Eastern Line) was completed in 1930. The station building was replaced with a newer shelter in the 1960s, whilst the adjacent Westfield Marshalling Yards were being built.
During the 1920s obsolete locomotives were often dumped in areas where the railway line was subject to erosion or soft ground. The cost of scrap being minimal at the time. Unlike locomotives dumped at other sites, such as Branxholme, Omoto and Oamaru, where the locomotives remained for decades, the locomotives at Westfield were retrieved and sold for scrap.
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