Hutt Park railway station, Gracefield
Hutt Park | |||||
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Hutt Park railway station, looking south. The platform now borders private land and the Hutt Valley Golf Course on the mothballed section of the Gracefield Branch line past the Hutt Workshops. | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Coordinates | 41°14′1.77″S 174°54′39.68″E / 41.2338250°S 174.9110222°E | ||||
| System | New Zealand Government Railways Department suburban rail | ||||
| Owned by | Railways Department | ||||
| Line | Gracefield Branch | ||||
| Platforms | Single side | ||||
| Tracks | Branch line (1) | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Parking | No | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1927-09-17 1960-02-27 | ||||
| Closed | 1949-02-05 1965-05-11 | ||||
| Rebuilt | Jan-Feb 1960 | ||||
| Electrified | 1960-02-27 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 1960 | 4263 | ||||
| 1960-1961 | 3107 27.11% | ||||
| 1961-1962 | 1714 44.83% | ||||
| 1962-1963 | 1649 3.79% | ||||
| 1963-1964 | 1233 25.22% | ||||
| 1964-1965 | 1022 17.11% | ||||
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Hutt Park railway station was on the Gracefield Branch line in the Wellington region of New Zealand’s North Island, a terminus for passenger trains from Wellington. The station was behind the Hutt Park Raceway and opposite the Hutt Workshops.
Services consisted exclusively of trains for patrons of race meetings of the Wellington Trotting Club at the Hutt Park Racecourse. Picnic trains were run occasionally to Woburn station for excursionists whose ultimate destination was the Hutt Park, who were conveyed by bus or walked to the park.