Sylvia Park Railway Station

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Sylvia Park
Auckland Transport Urban rail
File:Sylvia Park New Train Station II.jpg
View from Overbridge
Location Mount Wellington Highway,
Sylvia Park,
Auckland
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Owned by KiwiRail and Auckland Transport
Line(s) Eastern Line
Platforms Island platform
Tracks Mainline (2)
Construction
Platform levels 590,678
Parking No
Bicycle facilities No
History
Opened 2007
Electrified 25kV AC, electrified 17 June 2014.
Traffic
Passengers (2011) 1,679 passengers/weekday[1]
Services
  KiwiRail  
Preceding station   Transdev Auckland   Following station
toward Britomart
 Eastern Line
toward Manukau

Sylvia Park railway station is a station on the Eastern Line of the passenger rail network in Auckland, New Zealand. It serves Sylvia Park mall and the surrounding suburb of Mount Wellington.

New Station

File:Sylvia Park New Train Station I.jpg
The elevators and bridges connecting to the island platform

The new Sylvia Park station was funded by the builders of the mall[2] and built by ARTNL/ARTA. The new station opened to the public on Monday 2 July 2007.[3][4] The station cost NZ$5 million to build.[4]

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.

Services

Transdev Auckland, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services to Britomart, Manukau and Papakura via Sylvia Park. Until 7 December 2014, the basic weekday off-peak timetable is:

  • 3 tph to Britomart
  • 2 tph to Papakura
  • 1 tph to Manukau

From 8 December 2014, a new timetable will be introduced. All Eastern Line trains will now terminate at Manukau; passengers heading towards Papakura will need to transfer to the Southern Line at Otahuhu or Puhinui. The new basic weekday off-peak timetable will be:[5]

  • 3 tph to Britomart
  • 3 tph to Manukau

References

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External links

  1. ↑ Auckland Transport Board Meeting (20 November 2012) Agenda Item 10(i) "Rail Electrification Extension" p. 16
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