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Mount Albert Railway Station is in the suburb of Mount Albert on the Western Line of the Auckland railway network, near Unitec, a local tertiary education provider, and is popular with Unitec students. It has an island platform and is reached by a footbridge from Carrington Road and a subway between Willcott Street and New North Road. In 2010, significant discussion, including during the run-up to the local body elections, considered the station (and especially its access-ways and weather shelters) as dilapidated and in need of renewal. Also particularly criticised were the run-down shop rear areas fronting the railway station from the New North Road side. A former Auckland City councilor suggested that a green wall would offer an option to hide these unsightly areas behind low-cost, low-maintenance planting. == History == * 1880: Opened as one of the original stations on the North Auckland Line.〔''Railway Stations of Auckland's Western Line'' (2004) by Sean Millar〕 * 1908: A signal box was added.〔 * 1909: A new station building was built, after the previous one was destroyed by fire.〔 * 1920s: A siding to Mount Albert Quarry from the station is closed.〔 * 1966: The line was double-tracked and much of the station's infrastructure (including the signal box) was removed. The signal box is preserved at MOTAT.〔 * 2013: The station has been upgraded to accommodate for the new electrification process and opened in July 2013. This is part of the 2-stage process for the upgrade as part of Auckland Transport's rail station upgrade programme. The second stage, which is to include an overbridge connection to New North Road, is scheduled to be delivered in 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Albert Railway Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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