Westshore railway station
Westshore railway station | |||||||||||
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Westshore railway station in 1972 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°28′28″S 176°52′42″E / 39.4744°S 176.8783°E | ||||||||||
| Elevation | 2 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||
| Owned by | KiwiRail | ||||||||||
| Distance | Palmerston North 183.8 km (114.2 mi) | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 20 July 1923 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 20 June 1988 | ||||||||||
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The Westshore railway station served the Napier, New Zealand, suburb of Westshore, on the Napier-Gisborne section of the Palmerston North-Gisborne line, from 1923 to 1988.
The line continued to be used by freight trains and excursions, but beyond Wairoa, the section to Gisborne was closed by slips in 2012 and mothballed. The line was again closed when Cyclone Gabrielle damaged more than 400 sites in February 2023. A decision has not yet (2025) been made on whether to restore or mothball it. The Napier-Wairoa section reopened in 2019 following a $6.2 million investment from the Provincial Growth Fund, though log trains were suspended due to COVID-19 trains until November 2020.