Redwood Railway Station

Infobox Station
name=Redwood
type=Metlink suburban rail


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image_caption=Redwood railway station, looking south from the northern (up) platform.
address=Tawa Street, Redwood, Wellington, New Zealand
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line=North Island Main Trunk
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platform= Dual side, staggered
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tracks= Mainline (2)
parking=Yes
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baggage_check=No
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opened=1963
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electrified=June 1940
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owned=Tranz Metro
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Redwood Railway Station on the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT). It is double tracked with staggered side platforms; the up platform (towards Paraparaumu) is on the north side of the Tawa Street level crossing, the down platform (towards Wellington) on the south.

Services

Redwood is served by Paraparaumu Line commuter trains operated by Tranz Metro under the Metlink brand every 30 minutes off-peak, more frequently during peak periods. Some peak services run express between Porirua and Wellington and do not stop at Redwood. [Metlink, [http://www.metlink.org.nz/timetables.php?route=PPL Paraparaumu Line timetable] , accessed 30 October 2007.]

They are operated by electric multiple units, formerly DM/D class but are now almost always EM/ET class. Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Overlander, pass through the station but do not stop.

History

Redwood is one of only two stations on the Paraparaumu Line not on track built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR); the other is Takapu Road to the south. The WMR built the original route of the NIMT between Wellington and Longburn and it was purchased by the New Zealand Railways Department in December 1908. The original route between Wellington and Porirua via Johnsonville, now truncated to the Johnsonville Line, was bypassed in the 1930s by the Tawa Flat deviation. Redwood is on the northern section of this deviation. The deviation opened for freight on 24 July 1935, for passengers on 19 June 1937, and was electrified in June 1940, but Redwood did not open until 1963. [John Yonge (editor), "New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas", fourth edition (Exeter: Quail Map Company, 1993), 16.]

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