Sylvia Park railway station


Sylvia Park railway station is located on the North Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand. Eastern Line services of the Auckland passenger network are the only regular services that stop at the station. It serves Sylvia Park mall and the surrounding suburb of Mount Wellington and has an island platform layout.

New station

The new Sylvia Park station was funded by the builders of the mall and built by ARTNL/ARTA. It opened to the public on Monday 2 July 2007. The station cost NZ$5 million to build.
The station has a fairly high patronage, mainly people going shopping at the Sylvia Park Shopping Centre.

Previous station

The original Sylvia Park station was constructed, along with five others, in 1929 on the route of the Westfield Deviation, which was being built to divert the Auckland–Westfield section of the North Island Main Trunk line via a flatter, faster eastern route to link up with the original NIMT tracks at Westfield Junction.
This station was closed during the World War II period, due to the American government buying the land next to the railway and using it for army sheds.
Another station with the same name existed approximately 1 km west of this site. Passengers were mostly for the adjacent Westfield Freezing Works until 1986 when it was closed due to lack of patronage.

Services

, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services to Britomart and Manukau via Sylvia Park. The basic weekday off-peak timetable is:
Bus routes 32, 66, 298, 743, and 782 serve Sylvia Park.