Westshore railway station

Napier, Italy

The Westshore railway station served the Napier, New Zealand, suburb of Westshore, on the Napier-Gisborne section of the Palmerston North-Gisborne line, from 1923 to 1988. The line continued to be used by freight trains and excursions, but beyond Wairoa, the section to Gisborne was closed by slips i

n 2012 and mothballed. The line was again closed when Cyclone Gabrielle damaged more than 400 sites in February 2023. A decision has not yet (2025) been made on whether to restore or mothball it. The Napier-Wairoa section reopened in 2019 following a $6.2 million investment from the Provincial Growth Fund, though log trains were suspended due to COVID-19 trains until November 2020.

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