Penrose railway station, Auckland explained

Penrose
Address:Penrose, Auckland
Platform:Island platform (P1 & P2)
Side platform (P3)
Levels:1
Tracks:3
Parking:Yes
Bicycle:No
Accessible:Yes
Passengers:475 passengers/day
Pass Year:2009
Opened:1873[1]
Rebuilt:2010
Electrified:25 kV AC
Code:PNR
Owned:KiwiRail (track and platforms)
Auckland Transport (buildings)
Zone:Isthmus

Penrose railway station is a station at Penrose, Auckland, on the Southern Line and Onehunga Line of the Auckland railway network, New Zealand. It is equipped with an island platform reached by pedestrian bridges from Great South Road and Station Road, and a side platform on Station Road.

Penrose station is at the junction of the Onehunga Branch railway with the North Auckland railway. The Onehunga Branch is single-track with no south-going junction at Penrose, and passengers transferring between Onehunga Line and Southern Line services must use the bridge on the Station Road side to cross from one platform to the other.

In April 2011, the island platform was lengthened to accommodate longer suburban passenger trains, by raising the height of the platform around the old station building. On 28 April 2011, passenger trains began stopping under the station building shelter for the first time since 1993.

Penrose station is near Mount Smart Stadium, a major sports stadium.

Services

Auckland One Rail, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services to Waitematā, Onehunga, Papakura and Pukekohe via Ellerslie. The typical weekday off-peak timetable is:[2]

Bus routes 66, 298 and 321 serve Penrose station.[3]

On 24 June 2022, the Onehunga line was shortened to terminate at Newmarket due to a reduction of platforms at Waitematā for City Rail Link construction.[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations. Scoble. Juliet. 2010. Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand. 10 October 2019. 24 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180124135845/http://railheritage.org.nz/assets/Dates_and_names.pdf. dead.
  2. Web site: Southern Line . Auckland Transport . 18 September 2022.
  3. Web site: Southern Line . . 19 March 2023.
  4. Web site: Transport . Auckland . Onehunga Line Changes . 2022-06-29 . Auckland Transport . en-nz.