Drury railway station
Drury railway station | |||||||||||
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![]() Drury railway station 1905 | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | New Zealand | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°06′18″S 174°57′07″E / 37.104900°S 174.952000°E | ||||||||||
Elevation | 9 m (30 ft) | ||||||||||
Line(s) | North Island Main Trunk | ||||||||||
Distance | Wellington 641.81 km (398.80 mi) | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | October 1874 | ||||||||||
Closed | 21 May 1972 | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Drury railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand. It was a stop for southern services on the Auckland railway network.[1][2]
The Auckland and Drury Railway Act 1863 was passed by Parliament "to enable the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland to construct a Railway between the Towns of Auckland and Drury with a Branch to Onehunga in the said Province."[3]
The station was opened in October 1874.[4] On 8 December 1918, the existing station was replaced by a new Drury station building on a new site which also replaced the Runciman railway station. On 21 May 1972 the station was closed.[4]
New train stations for Drury West and Paerata are included in a July 2017 proposal for Auckland infrastructure spending of $600 million to support new housing announced by the government. They will be built and owned by a new Crown Infrastructure Partners body, as the Auckland Council has reached its borrowing limit.[5] In 2020, the government announced $247 million in funding for new stations at Drury West and Drury East,[6] to be started in 2023.[7]
See also
References
- ^ New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas (First ed.). Quail Map Co. 1965. pp. 3 & 4.
- ^ Pierre, Bill (1981). North Island Main Trunk. Wellington: A.H&A.W Reed. pp. 289–290. ISBN 0589013165.
- ^ "Auckland and Drury Railway Act 1863 (Local) (27 Victoriae 1863 No 2)". New Zealand Legal Information Institute – nzlii.org. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
- ^ a b Scoble, Juliet (2010). "Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations" (PDF). Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Government setting up new housing infrastructure company will invest $600m". Stuff (Fairfax). 17 August 2017.
- ^ Jane Paterson (29 January 2020). "Govt's $12b infrastructure spend: Rail, roads and DHBs the big winners". Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "Auckland rail – supporting urban and economic growth | NZ Transport Agency". www.nzta.govt.nz. Retrieved 29 January 2020.