Claudelands railway station
Claudelands railway station | |||||||||||
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 Claudelands railway station in 1953 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Claudelands New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°46′50″S 175°17′25″E / 37.7805°S 175.2904°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | KiwiRail Network | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | East Coast Main Line | ||||||||||
| Tracks | single track | ||||||||||
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| 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]
History
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation (4 April 1967). "Claudelands, Hamilton". Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.
- ^ Yonge, John Roger; Company, Quail Map (1993). New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas. Quail Map Company. ISBN 9780900609923.
{{cite book}}:|last2=has generic name (help) - ^ a b Scoble, Juliet. "Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations in New Zealand 1863 to 2010" (PDF). Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 January 2018.
- ^ "Page 8 Advertisements Column 6". Auckland Star. 28 February 1899. p. 8. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "Local and General". Waikato Independent. 1914. p. 4. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "The Waikato Argus, [published Daily.] a Guaranteed Circulation of Over 8500 Weekly. Saturday, January 2, 1909". 1909. p. 2. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Station Archive". NZR Rolling Stock Lists. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ "Chamber Of Commerce". Waikato Times. 10 December 1912. p. 4. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ^ "Kirikiriroa Station". New Zealand Herald. 2 August 1913. p. 7. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ^ "Waikato a. & P. Association". Waikato Argus. 17 July 1913. p. 3. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "Kirikiriroa Railway Station". Waikato Times. 19 April 1906. p. 3. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "LOCAL AND GENERAL. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 14 January 1925. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ "Claudelands Progress". New Zealand Herald. 25 June 1927. p. 13. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "Railways". Hamilton. Archived from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "Stations". NZR Rolling Stock Lists. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ "URBAN GROWTH PROGRAMME INITIATIVES" (PDF). Hamilton City Council. 3 April 2020.