Penrose railway station, Auckland
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Penrose | |||||||||||||||
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| Auckland Transport Urban rail | |||||||||||||||
 The station in February 2018, looking southbound. The Onehunga Branch line curves off to its platform at right | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | Penrose, Auckland | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°54.6′S 174°49.0′E / 36.9100°S 174.8167°E | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | KiwiRail (track and platforms) Auckland Transport (buildings) | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Southern Line, Onehunga Line | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Island platform (1&2), Side platform (3) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | PNR | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1873[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2010 | ||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 25 kV AC | ||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||
| 2009 | 475 passengers/day | ||||||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||||||
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Penrose railway station is a station at Penrose, Auckland, on the Southern Line of the Auckland railway network, New Zealand. It has an island platform and is reached by pedestrian over bridges from Great South Road and Station Road. It still has its original wooden station building on the platform.
Penrose station is at the junction of the Onehunga Branch line with the North Auckland Line, and there is an adjacent side platform to the west for Onehunga Line services. The Onehunga Branch is single-track with no south-going junction at Penrose, and passengers transferring between Onehunga Line and Southern Line services must use the over bridge on the Station Road side to cross from one platform to the other.
In April 2011, the island platform was lengthened to accommodate longer suburban passenger trains, by raising the height of the platform around the old station building. On 28 April 2011, passenger trains began stopping under the station building shelter for the first time since 1993.
Penrose station is near Mount Smart Stadium, a major sports stadium.
Services
Transdev Auckland, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services to Britomart, Onehunga, Papakura and Pukekohe via Ellerslie. The typical weekday off-peak timetable is:[2][3]
- 5 tph to Britomart
- 3 tph to Papakura
- 2 tph to Onehunga
Bus routes 66, 298 and 321 serve Penrose station.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Scoble, Juliet (2010). "Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations" (PDF). Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Southern Line Inbound" (PDF). Auckland Transport. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Southern Line Outbound" (PDF). Auckland Transport. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Central Auckland Network Map" (PDF). Auckland Transport. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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