Sylvia Park railway station

Sylvia Park railway station is located on the North Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand. Eastern Line services of the Auckland passenger network are the only regular services that stop at the station. It serves Sylvia Park mall and the surrounding suburb of Mount Wellington and has an island platform layout.

Sylvia Park
Auckland Transport Urban rail
View of the station in 2007 from the station overbridge, prior to electrification.
LocationMount Wellington, Auckland
Coordinates36.914661°S 174.842624°E / -36.914661; 174.842624
Owned byKiwiRail (track and platforms)
Auckland Transport (buildings)[1]
Line(s)Eastern Line
PlatformsIsland platform
TracksMainline (2)
Construction
Platform levels1
ParkingNo
Bicycle facilitiesNo
Other information
Fare zoneIsthmus
History
Opened2 July 2007 (2007-07-02)
Electrified25 kV AC
Passengers
20111,679 passengers/weekday[2]
Services
Preceding station   Auckland Transport (Transdev)   Following station
toward Britomart
Eastern Line
toward Manukau

New station
The elevators and bridges connecting to the island platform

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

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

Previous station

The original Sylvia Park station was constructed, along with five others, in 1929 on the route of the Westfield Deviation, which was being built to divert the Auckland–Westfield section of the North Island Main Trunk line (NIMT) via a flatter, faster eastern route to link up with the original NIMT tracks at Westfield Junction.[6]

This station was 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. The basic weekday off-peak timetable is:[7]

  • 3 tph to Britomart
  • 3 tph to Manukau

Bus routes 32, 66, 298, 743, and 782 serve Sylvia Park.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Auckland Transport Code of Practice" (PDF). Auckland Transport. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  2. Auckland Transport Board Meeting (20 November 2012) Agenda Item 10(i) "Rail Electrification Extension" Archived 14 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine p. 16
  3. "Sylvia Park Train Station Opens". Scoop.co.nz. 2 July 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  4. Dearnaley, Mathew (2 July 2007). "Next stop, shopping ... big centre gets its own rail station". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  5. The New Zealand Herald (28 June 2007). "Train temptations". Retrieved 28 June 2007.
  6. "Westfield Deviation – One track in use by May". The New Zealand Herald. 27 February 1929. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  7. "Eastern Line timetable" (PDF). 17 November 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  8. "Central Auckland Network Map" (PDF). Auckland Transport. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
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