Manukau railway station is a major railway station in
Manukau
Manukau (), or Manukau Central, is a suburb of South Auckland, New Zealand, centred on the Manukau City Centre business district. It is located 23 kilometres south of the Auckland Central Business District, west of the Southern Motorway, ...
, a suburb of
Auckland
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,
New Zealand
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, and located in the campus of the
Manukau Institute of Technology
Established in 1970, Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) () is a Category One Institute of technology in Auckland, New Zealand.
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.
It is the terminus station for
Eastern Line services between Manukau and
Waitematā in central Auckland. Access from the station to ground level and to surrounding streets is by stairs, lift or escalator to the ground floor of the 7-level campus building.
History
Station works were essentially finished by October 2011, and the
Manukau Branch
The Manukau Branch is a spur railway line off the North Island Main Trunk railway from Wiri to Manukau, Manukau City Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the first fully new section of railway line constructed in Auckland since the Eastern ...
line, a 2.5 km spur line
off the
North Island Main Trunk
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railway, opened on 15 April 2012.
Manukau station is the only station on the branch line.The Eastern Line was the second
passenger rail
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line in Auckland to receive electric train services, following the
Onehunga Line in April 2014.
Electric trains began running on some Eastern Line off-peak services on 15 August 2014, and were gradually rolled out onto all services over the following month.
In December 2014, all trains using the Eastern Line began terminating at Manukau rather than alternating between Manukau and Papakura. Similarly, all
Southern Line trains began terminating at Papakura or Pukekohe.
In April 2018, Manukau was the 11th busiest train station on the Auckland network with an average of 1,650 passengers on a typical weekday.
Services
Auckland One Rail, on behalf of
Auckland Transport
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, operates suburban services from Manukau to
Britomart along the Eastern line via Glen Innes and Panmure. At off-peak, three trains per hour depart Manukau during weekday inter-peak, decreasing to two trains per hour in the evening and on weekends. At peak times, as many as six trains per hour depart Manukau.
Bus routes AirportLink, 33, 35, 36, 313, 325, 352, 353, 355, 361, 362, 365 and 366 serve Manukau station.
Bus station
In 2016, work began on the 23-bay
Manukau bus station adjacent to the train station. It was officially opened on 7 April 2018, and bus services from the facility began the following day.
See also
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List of Auckland railway stations
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Public transport in Auckland
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References
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Manukau City Centre
Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board Area
Railway stations in New Zealand opened in 2012