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peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between
Wellington and Waikanae ran every 30 minutes but were increased to one every 20 minutes from 15 July 2018. Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, some trains from Wellington that stop at all stations may terminate at Porirua and return to Wellington while a number of peak services run express or non-stop between Wellington and Porirua before stopping at all stations from Porirua to Waikanae. All services running between Waikanae and Wellington stop at Paekākāriki.
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and Paekākāriki. Work was undertaken to lower the floors of these tunnels to improve clearances and from the 1960s diesel locomotives were able to work south of Paekākāriki and locomotive changes at Paekākāriki became unnecessary. However, electric locomotives were kept at Paekākāriki to bank trains
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Wellington and Paekākāriki where the locomotives were changed from electric to steam. During the 1950s, steam locomotives were progressively replaced by diesel-electric locomotives for long distance trains, but locomotives continued to be changed at Paekākāriki because
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Electrification was extended north of Paekākāriki to
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and a steam locomotive depot. The refreshment room closed when it became unnecessary to stop trains to change locomotives at Paekākāriki. Locomotives were changed or a banker locomotive added for the steep bank up to
Pukerua Bay, and from 1940 it was the southern terminal station for steam
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that needed assistance on the steep grade from Paekākāriki to
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works "to acquire, develop, and administer the venue of the
Railway Station Precinct at Paekakariki for recreational, historical preservation, tourism, and educational purposes, and for other allied or supporting activity".
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locomotives. Previously there was a signal box at each end of the station, a two-road shed with water, coal and oil facilities, a turntable, and (until
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Paikakariki Railway Station; from the Cyclopaedia of New Zealand, 1897
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has taken over most of the rail yard for rail preservation.
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Buildings and structures in the Kāpiti Coast District
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921:Railway stations in New Zealand opened in 1886
722:"Notice of Approved Official Geographic Names"
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65:Robertson Road, Paekākāriki, New Zealand
807:"Welcome to Paekakariki Station Museum"
748:"RIGHT THROUGH. WELLINGTON TO AUCKLAND"
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754:. 15 February 1909
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407:Steam Incorporated
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588:References
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576:See also
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246:towards
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470:History
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375:Metlink
361:on the
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180:Opened
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