Te Rapa railway station


Te Rapa railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand serving Te Rapa. It was a 'flag station', originally south of Horotiu and north of Hamilton.

Layout

It was equipped with distant signals in 1916, and was part of the extension of automatic signalling from Mercer to Frankton in 1929, when the sidings were switch-locked and automatically controlled and the former single track doubled. The sidings were extended into the RNZAF stores depot, to the south east, when it was built during the war. There were also bulk cement and Apple & Pear Board sidings.

Rotokauri Public Transport Hub

Public Transport Hub is planned to open on Monday 3 August 2020, at a cost of $29m, as a park and ride station for north Hamilton and for The Base, which is adjacent. The cost rose from an earlier estimate of $21m, $18.5m of it from NZTA. It will be served by the revived Hamilton-Auckland train, Te Huia, and will be close to the south end of the original Te Rapa station. The Hub will have a platform, park and ride carpark, bus interchange, roading upgrades, passenger bridge and stairs. Lifts have been delayed "due to international supply chain issues".

Accidents

In a fog in 1934, a southbound train from Auckland collided with a goods train. The only casualty was a pig, but the AB locomotive was thrown on its side.