Kenepuru Railway Station

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Kenepuru Railway Station is located on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in Kenepuru, New Zealand and is part of the suburban rail network of Wellington. It is double tracked, has a side platform layout on a curved section of the line, and is 16.16 km from Wellington Railway Station, the southern terminus of the NIMT. It is within walking distance of Kenepuru Hospital.

[edit] Services

Kenepuru is served by Paraparaumu Line commuter trains operated by Tranz Metro under the Metlink brand. Trains run every thirty minutes off-peak, and more frequently during peak periods. A number of peak services run express between Porirua and Wellington and thus do not stop at Kenepuru Station.^[1]

The commuter trains are operated by electric multiple units. These were formerly DM/D class units but are now almost always units of the EM/ET class. Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Overlander, pass through the station but do not stop.

[edit] History

The line through Kenepuru was originally part of the Wellington - Manawatu Line. Built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR), the station opened on 24 September 1885 when services commenced on the first section of the line, from Wellington to Paremata. The full line to Longburn was completed the next year and trains were operated by the WMR until December 1908, when the New Zealand Railways Department purchased the WMR and incorporated its line into the NIMT.

On 19 June 1937, the Tawa Flat deviation was opened to the south of Kenepuru. It eliminated the circuitous route via Johnsonville into Wellington and thus dramatically quickened travel times to and from Kenepuru. On June 1940, the line through Kenepuru was electrified, and on 15 December 1957, it was double tracked.^[2]

[edit] References

		ONTRACK
Preceding station		Tranz Metro		Following station
Porirua toward Paraparaumu		Paraparaumu Line		Linden toward Wellington