Wallaceville railway station is a suburban railway station serving

Wallaceville Wallaceville is a suburb of Upper Hutt (located in the lower (southern) North Island of New Zealand). It is named after John Howard Wallace, an early New Zealand settler, council politician, businessman and author of one of the first published h ...

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

Wairarapa Line The Wairarapa Line is a secondary railway line in the south-east of the North Island of New Zealand. The line runs for , connects the capital city Wellington with the Palmerston North - Gisborne Line at Woodville, via Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt ...

, north of

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, and is served by Metlink on behalf of the

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. Trains between

and Wellington stop at Wallaceville. There is a large

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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 Wellington railway station, or Wellington Central station, is the main railway station serving Wellington, New Zealand, and is the southern terminus of the North Island Main Trunk, Wairarapa Line and Johnsonville Line. The station opened in ...

; to house a team of 120 train control team members in a 2700 square meters train control room. It iwill be next to the rail network.

History

The station was opened in 1878. when it was a "flag stop". The station closed from 1 July 1881; see NZR notice of 3 June 1881. 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. 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. In 1963, convenient rail access was mentioned in a job advertisement. 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 20112012 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.

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* Passenger service timetables fro
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1967 photo of 1955-1978 building
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