Manor Park railway station is a suburban railway station serving the suburb of Manor Park in

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. The station is located on the Hutt Valley section of the

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, northeast of

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. The station is served by Metlink's

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trains of the "Matangi" FP class. Trains stopping at Manor Park run to Wellington and

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. The station has an

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between two tracks. The station is one of only three Hutt Valley line stations west of Te Awa Kairangi/Hutt River, the others being the

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and Ava railway stations.

History

In 1954 the Hutt Valley Branch became the main line, and the Melling-Haywards section was closed, with the western part of the old line becoming the single-track

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. A new station was erected at Haywards (now called Manor Park) where the new line from Pomare joined the existing line north. The old Haywards railway station had been opened (with Belmont railway station) on 15 December 1875. The station received a new "park and ride" car park with a linking pedestrian overbridge as part of the new $42 million interchange southwest of the station between State Highway 2 and State Highway 58 over

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. Work on the new interchange commenced in 2015 and was completed two years later.

Services

The station, like most others on the

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, receives one all-stops train every 20 minutes both ways off-peak. This changes in the peak hours, with trains running express services between

and Taitā and stopping at all stops between Taitā and

. No bus routes serve the station.

References

External links

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