Parnell Railway Station

The Mainline Steam depot, with the new station proposed to be just to the north (left) of it.

Parnell Railway Station is a new station under construction in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, on the Newmarket Line (which serves the Western, Onehunga, and Southern lines of the Auckland rail network).

The station is located in the Waipapa Valley between Parnell and the Auckland Domain, some distance north of the Parnell Tunnel. An early proposal was to integrate it with some of the historic Mainline Steam buildings (former railway workshops),[1] but nothing eventuated and the buildings were demolished in September 2015.

After a plan to lease part of the area as a bus depot was cancelled,[2] 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.[3] It was proposed that several million dollars saved during the upgrade of the Newmarket Train Station be allocated to this new station.[2]

The works required were budgeted at approximately $5.5 million to regrade the rail tracks, and further expenses to improve local access to the station, both from Parnell and the Auckland Domain / Auckland CBD side. The old heritage station building of the Newmarket Train Station, removed as part of the modern upgrade of that station, was proposed to be installed at the new station.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Nicholas Stevens: First the dream, then the bombshell". The New Zealand Herald. 23 October 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  2. 1 2 Dearnaley, Mathew (2 November 2010). "KiwiRail abandons bus park idea". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  3. 1 2 "ARC presses for Parnell train station". The New Zealand Herald. 30 September 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2011.

Coordinates: 36°51′17″S 174°46′40″E / 36.854619°S 174.777647°E / -36.854619; 174.777647

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