Epuni Railway Station

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Epuni railway station is a suburban railway station serving Epuni and Fairfield in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The station is located on the Hutt Valley section of the Wairarapa Line, 16.5km north of Wellington, and is served by Transdev Wellington on behalf of the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Trains stopping at Epuni run to Wellington, Taita and Upper Hutt.The station has an island platform between double tracks, which linked via a pedestrian subway to Cambridge Terrace and Fairfield in the east, and to Oxford Terrace and Epuni in the west.HistoryEpuni station opened on 7 January 1946, as part of the extension of the then Hutt Valley Branch line from Waterloo to Naenae. The line through Epuni was initially single track; the second track opened fifteen months later in April 1947.The line through Epuni was electrified at 1500 V DC in September 1953. As part of the works, a "cross-tie" traction substation was built on the Epuni platform; this substation did not feed power into the overhead lines but provided a switching point halfway between the two feeder traction substations at Petone and Pomare.