Paekākāriki railway station

Paekākāriki railway station in Paekākāriki on the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand, is an intermediate station on the Kāpiti Line for Metlink's electric multiple unit commuter trains from Wellington. Paekākāriki was the terminal station of the commuter service from 1940 to 1983, when the service was extended to Paraparaumu, and to Waikanae in 2011. The station was opened in 1886. Initially, banking locomotives were attached at Paekākāriki for the steep "hill" up to Pukerua Bay and steam locomotives were changed there for electric locomotives to Wellington from 1940 to the 1960s. The large wooden station building on an island platform is used by a museum, and has a bookshop run by Irving Lipshaw and Michael O’Leary in one section. There are a restored signal box and a level crossing at the south end. Steam Incorporated has taken over most of the rail yard for rail preservation. Several buildings are listed by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, as Category I (signal box and water vats) or Category II (station and goods shed) The station and yard is a historic area.

Paekākāriki is the second station before Waikanae, the northern terminus on the Kāpiti Line, for commuter trains operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand contracted to the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Services between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, pass through the station but do not stop. Travel times by train are 14 minutes to Waikanae, 15 minutes to Porirua, 46 minutes to Wellington for trains stopping at all stations and 41 minutes for express trains that do not stop between Porirua and Wellington. Trains run every 20 minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae ran every 30 minutes but were increased to one every 20 minutes from 15 July 2018. Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, some trains from Wellington that

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