Wallaceville railway station

Wallaceville
Metlink suburban rail
Wallaceville station in 2021
General information
Location	Maclean Street (Ward Street end), Wallaceville, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Coordinates	41°07′50.82″S 175°03′29.30″E
Owned by	Greater Wellington Regional Council
Line(s)	Wairarapa Line
Platforms	Dual, side
Tracks	Main lines: 2
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Other information
Station code	WALL
Fare zone	7[1]
History
Opened	7 March 1878
Electrified	24 July 1955
Services
Preceding station Transdev Wellington Following station Upper Hutt Terminus Hutt Valley Line Trentham towards Wellington

Wallaceville railway station is a suburban railway station serving Wallaceville in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The station is located on the Hutt Valley section of the Wairarapa Line, 31.3 km (19.4 mi) north of Wellington, and is served by Metlink on behalf of the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Trains between Upper Hutt and Wellington stop at Wallaceville.

There is a large park and ride facility as well as bicycle lockers.

The Blue Mountains Campus at Wallaceville is to be the location for KiwiRail's national Train Control Centre, which is to move from the Wellington railway station; to house a team of 120 train control team members in a 2700 square metres train control room. It iwill be next to the rail network.^[2]

History

The station was opened in 1878.^[3][4] when it was a "flag stop". The station closed from 1 July 1881; see NZR notice of 3 June 1881.^[5]

The station was opened and closed in the 19th century; Scoble refers to a Whiteman's Valley platform c1879. The flag station was closed on 1 July 1891.^[6]

The station reopened in the 20th century; it was reopened by 1903 when a new Ministry of Agriculture research station was to be established nearby.^[7]

In 1963, convenient rail access was mentioned in a job advertisement.^[8]

The section between Upper Hutt to Trentham was single track, but as part of the 2020-2021 Wellington Metro Rail Upgrade (and as proposed in the 2011 – 2012 Regional Rail Plan (RRP)) the section was double-tracked by 2021. The original platform is used by up or northbound trains and the new platform built to the east for down or southbound trains, with a building similar to the Ava station building.^[9][10][11]

References

1. Metlink. "Text description of fare zone boundaries". Metlink - Greater Wellington Regional Council.
2. "KiwiRail signs 20-year lease at 100M2 business hub, plans to set-up new train control room". Stuff/Fairfax. 2023.
3. "Railway Stations and Names" (PDF). www.railheritage.org.nz. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
4. Hoy, D.G. Rails out of the Capital p. 93 (NZRLS, 1970)
5. "Newspapers". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
6. "Wallaceville flag station to be closed from 1 July". Papers Past. 26 June 1891.
7. "New research station at Wallaceville". Papers Past. 31 January 1903.
8. "Assistant Electrical Engineer wanted (advertisement)". Papers Past. 1963.
9. "Wellington Rail Upgrades". The New Zealand Railway Observer. Vol. 76, no. 6. February–March 2020. pp. 251–252.
10. Priority Area – Public transport" in Staying on Track: Key work programme for 2019/20 page 5, from the Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC)
11. "Regional Rail Plan" (PDF). Greater Wellington Regional Council. November 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2011.

External links

• Passenger service timetables from Metlink
• 1967 photo of 1955-1978 building