List of Nelson railway stations

For station in Lancashire, England, see Nelson railway station.

This is a list of the stations that were established on the Nelson Section, an isolated 96 kilometres (60 mi) long railway in the Tasman district of New Zealand’s South Island. Most stations handled passenger traffic until passenger services were withdrawn in 1954, and most also handled freight. One, Gowanbridge, was never used in revenue service, and Kawatiri had a relatively short lifespan of only 5 years and 21 days. All stations, other than Gowanbridge and Kawatiri, were closed along with the line on 3 September 1955.

List

Station	Distance (km)	Opened	Closed	Notes
Port Nelson (Wakefield Quay)	00.00	17 May 1880	3 September 1955	Station building preserved by Nelson Railway Society. Currently located at Founders Heritage Park.
Nelson	01.61	29 January 1876	3 September 1955
Hampden St. Crossing		-		Listed in some Working Timetables as a place where the train could stop if required for school students to disembark. Not a real station.
Bishopdale, Nelson	04.67	29 January 1876	3 September 1955
Stoke	08.67
Freezing Works	11.10	April 1909
Richmond	13.52	29 January 1876
Appleby	15.13	23 April 1895
Hope	16.74	29 January 1876
Brightwater	21.24
Spring Grove	23.50			Station building preserved by Nelson Railway Society. Renamed to "Grove Station" and located at the end of Sovereign Street.
Wakefield	27.84
Wai-iti	32.19
Foxhill	34.12	25 July 1881
Belgrove	c35.63		c.1890	First location of this station was about 100 metres south-west of the highway due to the original route chosen for the railway which was later changed. Station building preserved at Belgrove.
Belgrove	35.63	c.1890	3 September 1955	The second location of Belgrove station was established with the change of route from 1890.
Motupiko	51.34	16 February 1899
Mararewa	56.49	22 October 1906
Tapawera	59.22	6 August 1906
Rakau	63.73
Tadmor	68.08
Kiwi	76.28	18 December 1908		Station building preserved at Tapawera, housing a museum.
Tui	81.43	2 September 1912		Station building preserved by Nelson Railway Society. Located near Miyazu Japanese Gardens, Nelson.
Kaka	85.94
Glenhope	96.64			Station building preserved, at original location.
Kawatiri	103.20	21 June 1926	21 June 1931
Gowanbridge	109.50	August 1930	3 October 1932	Never used for timetabled or revenue traffic.

See also

• Nelson Section
• Nelson Railway Society, which has the Tui railway station

References

• Quail Map Company (1993). Yonge, John (ed.). New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas (Fourth ed.). England: The Quail Map Company. p. 17. ISBN 0-900609-92-3.
• O’Donnell, Barry (2005). When Nelson Had A Railway: The Life And Death Of New Zealand’s Last Isolated Railway 1876–1955. Wellington: Schematics Limited. ISBN 0-476-01119-1.