Melling railway station
railway station in New Zealand
Melling railway station is the terminal station on the single track Melling Line in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The single platform station serves the suburb of Melling. The station is served by Metlink's electric multiple unit trains.
The station will close for three years from December 2025 to late 2028 to enable the RiverLink flood protection project to proceed. Melling Line services will instead terminate at Western Hutt railway station, and bus services that serve the station will be rerouted. A new Melling station is to be built 250m south of the existing station, which will be preserved as a heritage building.
In January 2026 the rail tracks between the Melling and Western Hutt railway stations were removed.
History
The station used to be on the Hutt Valley Line section of the Wairarapa Line until 1 March 1954, when the Melling-Belmont section of the line on the western side of the Hutt Valley was closed and the through line to Upper Hutt and the Wairarapa rerouted through the centre of the valley. The truncated line to Melling was then electrified. The new station erected at the same time was about 100m closer to Wellington to avoid a level crossing at the Melling Link Road over the Hutt River.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6813117. Authority coordinates are -41.204, 174.905. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2025, 2028, 2026 and 1954.
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