Sylvia Park railway station
Sylvia Park | |
|---|---|
| MAXX Urban rail | |
 View from overbridge. | |
| General information | |
| Location | Mount Wellington Highway, Sylvia Park, Auckland |
| Coordinates | 36°54′53″S 174°50′33″E / 36.914661°S 174.842624°E |
| Owned by | ARTA |
| Line(s) | Eastern Line |
| Platforms | Island |
| Tracks | 2 |
| History | |
| Electrified | No |
Sylvia Park train station is a railway station on the Eastern line of the passenger rail network in Auckland, New Zealand. It serves the recently opened Sylvia Park mall and the surrounding suburb of Mount Wellington. Sylvia Park station was funded by the builders of the mall [1] and built by ARTNL/ARTA.
The new station opened to the public on Monday 2 July 2007.[2][3]. The station cost NZ$5 million to build.[3]
Services are provided at least half-hourly on weekdays, with services at least hourly on weekends and public holidays.[2]
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.
External links
References
- ^ "Kiwi Income Properties Media Release: Railway station gets the green light at Sylvia Park".
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|access date=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ a b Next stop, shopping ... big centre gets its own rail station - New Zealand Herald, Monday 02 July 2007
- ^ a b New Zealand Herald. "Train temptations". Retrieved 2007-06-28.
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