Claudelands railway station | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | Claudelands New Zealand | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°46′50″S175°17′25″E / 37.7805°S 175.2904°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | KiwiRail Network | ||||||||||
Line(s) | East Coast Main Line | ||||||||||
Tracks | single track | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1 October 1884 | ||||||||||
Closed | 2 June 1991 | ||||||||||
Previous names | Hamilton East, Kirikiriroa | ||||||||||
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Claudelands railway station was a New Zealand railway station in the Hamilton suburb of Claudelands. The station was between Brooklyn Road and Claudelands Road, [1] 1.23 km (0.76 mi) east of the old Hamilton station (1879–1969) and 3.94 km (2.45 mi) west of Ruakura [2] (1884–1967). [3]
Claudelands had a railway station from 1884 to 1991, [3] named Hamilton East until 1 March 1899, [4] and then Kirikiriroa until 1 February 1914, [5] when it was changed to Claudelands after a petition. [6]
The station was between Brooklyn Road and Claudelands Road. [1]
By 1884 the station had a goods shed and cattle pens. [7] In 1912, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce applied for a porter to be employed there, [8] which was approved in 1913, when it became a tablet station [9] and the yard was extended, [10] after a lengthy residents' campaign. [11] A 30 ft (9.1 m) x 20 ft (6.1 m) goods shed was built in 1925 [12] and electric lighting added by 1927. [13] Railway houses were built in 1920, 1954 and 1955. [7] The station building was damaged by fire on 23 April 1949 [7] and burnt down on 11 July 1987, [14] though there is a photograph of the station captioned as 25 June 1988. [15] The stockyards closed on 12 May 1969 and the station closed on 2 June 1991. [7]
In 2020, double tracking and potentially reopening the station for events, were put forward as a COVID-19 recovery scheme, as part of a $150m scheme to relay tracks to Cambridge. [16]
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