Sylvia Park Railway Station

Sylvia Park
Auckland Transport Urban rail

View from Overbridge
Location Mount Wellington Highway
Coordinates 36°54′53″S 174°50′33″E / 36.914661°S 174.842624°E / -36.914661; 174.842624
Owned by KiwiRail and Auckland Transport
Line(s) Eastern Line
Platforms Island platform
Tracks Mainline (2)
Construction
Platform levels 590,678
Parking No
Bicycle facilities No
History
Opened 2007
Electrified 25kV AC
Traffic
Passengers (2011) 1,679 passengers/weekday[1]
Services
  KiwiRail  
Preceding station   Transdev Auckland   Following station
toward Britomart
Eastern Line
toward Manukau

Sylvia Park Railway Station is on the Eastern Line of the passenger rail network in Auckland, New Zealand. It serves Sylvia Park mall and the surrounding suburb of Mount Wellington.

New Station

The elevators and bridges connecting to the island platform

The new Sylvia Park station was funded by the builders of the mall[2] and built by ARTNL/ARTA. The new station opened to the public on Monday 2 July 2007.[3][4] The station cost NZ$5 million to build.[4]

The new station has a fairly high patronage, mainly people going shopping at the new Sylvia Park Shopping Centre.

Previous station

An earlier station was opened at the site in 1930 and closed during the World War II period (1940-1945), due to the American government buying the land next to the railway and using it for army sheds.

Another station with the same name existed approximately 1 km west of this site. Passengers were mostly for the adjacent Westfield Freezing Works until 1986 when it was closed due to lack of patronage.

Services

Transdev Auckland, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services to Britomart and Manukau via Sylvia Park. From July 2015, the weekday peak timetable is 6 tph in each direction, while the off-peak timetable is 3 tph in each direction. On weekends and public holidays, it is 2 tph in each direction.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Auckland Transport Board Meeting (20 November 2012) Agenda Item 10(i) "Rail Electrification Extension" p. 16
  2. ↑ "Kiwi Income Properties Media Release: Railway station gets the green light at Sylvia Park". Retrieved March 2007.
  3. ↑ Dearnaley, Mathew (2 July 2007). "Next stop, shopping ... big centre gets its own rail station". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  4. 1 2 The New Zealand Herald (28 June 2007). "Train temptations". Retrieved 2007-06-28.

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