Paekākāriki railway station

Paekākāriki railway station in Paekākāriki on the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand, is an intermediate station on the Kāpiti Line for Metlink's electric multiple unit commuter trains from Wellington. Paekākāriki was the terminal station of the commuter service from 1940 to 1983, when the service was extended to Paraparaumu, and to Waikanae in 2011.

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Paekakariki Station Precinct Trust

The Paekakariki Station Precinct Trust works "to acquire, develop, and administer the venue of the Railway Station Precinct at Paekākāriki for recreational, historical preservation, tourism, and educational purposes, and for other allied or supporting activity".

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Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust

The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust is a charitable trust based in Wellington, New Zealand, and is actively restoring former Wellington and Manawatu Railway locomotive No.9, to full working order.

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Steam Incorporated

Steam Incorporated, often abbreviated to Steam Inc., is a railway heritage and preservation society based at the Paekākāriki railway station, Paekākāriki at the southern end of the Kāpiti Coast, approximately 50 minutes north of Wellington on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Unlike some societies who operate on preserved sections of closed branch lines, Steam Incorporated owns a depot beside one of the country's most important railway lines, the North Island Main Trunk railway, and restores heritage locomotives and rolling stock for use on excursions on the regular national rail network.

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Paekākāriki

Paekākāriki is a town in the Kāpiti Coast District, in the south-west of New Zealand's North Island. The town is part of the Kapiti Coast functional urban area and lies 10 km south of Paraparaumu, 20 km north of Porirua and 41 km northeast of the Wellington CBD. The town's name comes from the Māori language and can mean "parakeet perch". Paekākāriki had a population of 1,674 at the time of the 2023 census, down 72 from the 2018 census. Paekākāriki lies on a narrowing of the thin coastal plain between the Tasman Sea and the Akatarawa Ranges, and thus serves as an important transportation node. To the south, State Highway 59 climbs towards Porirua; to the north the plains extend inland from the Kāpiti Coast; at Paekākāriki the highway and North Island Main Trunk railway run close together between the coast and hills. Paekākāriki is also served by the nearby Transmission Gully and Kāpiti Expressway.

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Escarpment Track

The Escarpment Track is a 10-kilometre-long hiking track between Pukerua Bay and Paekākāriki in the northern part of the Wellington region of New Zealand. It forms part of the 3,000-kilometre Te Araroa trail from Cape Reinga to Bluff. The track climbs to approximately 215 metres above sea level, along a narrow route formed along a steep coastal escarpment. It overlooks a section of State Highway 59 known as Centennial Highway, and the North–South Junction section of the Kāpiti Line and the North Island Main Trunk railway line.

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The station was opened in 1886. Initially, banking locomotives were attached at Paekākāriki for the steep "hill" up to Pukerua Bay and steam locomotives were changed there for electric locomotives to Wellington from 1940 to the 1960s. The large wooden station building on an island platform is used by a museum, and has a bookshop run by Irving Lipshaw and Michael O’Leary in one section. There are a restored signal box and a level crossing at the south end. Steam Incorporated has taken over most of the rail yard for rail preservation. Several buildings are listed by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, as Category I (signal box and water vats) or Category II (station and goods shed) The station and yard is a historic area.