Mana Railway Station on the Kapiti Line section of the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in the "Mana" locality in the Paremata

Paremata

Paremata is a suburb of Porirua, on the Tasman Sea coast to the north of Wellington, New Zealand.-Early history:The modern suburb, just south of Plimmerton, derives its name from the "Parramatta Barracks", erected on the north shore of Porirua Harbour in about 1846 when the infant government was...

 suburb of the city of Porirua

Porirua

Porirua is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, immediately north of the city of Wellington, with their central business districts 20 km apart. A large proportion of the population commutes to Wellington, so it may be considered a satellite city. It almost completely surrounds...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

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 is part of Wellington's Tranz Metro suburban rail network.

It is double tracked with a platform each side and a subway between them.

Services

Mana is served by Electric Multiple Unit

Electric multiple unit

An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number of the carriages...

 (EMU) trains operated by Tranz Metro

Tranz Metro

Tranz Metro, part of KiwiRail, is the operator of Metlink suburban trains owned by the Greater Wellington Regional Council in the Wellington Region of New Zealand....

, a part of KiwiRail

KiwiRail

KiwiRail Holdings Limited is the rail operations subsidiary of the New Zealand Railways Corporation, which trades as KiwiRail. Headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, KiwiRail is the largest rail transport operator in New Zealand. Since July 2010 John Spencer has been the Chairman...

. Trains run every day every 30 minutes outside peak times, and more frequently during peak periods. All services running between Paraparaumu and Wellington stop in Mana.

Tranz Scenic

Tranz Scenic

Tranz Scenic is the long-distance passenger train brand of KiwiRail, formed from the New Zealand Railways Corporation InterCity Rail services. Tranz Scenic was renamed along with the other operating divisions of Tranz Rail in 1995...

 carriage trains and diesel hauled KiwiRail freight trains pass by the station but do not stop.

History

The single platform halt was opened on 5 September 1949, when the first of the new DM/D class Electric Multiple Unit

Electric multiple unit

An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number of the carriages...

s (EMUs) ordered for the Hutt Valley Line were available. For traffic reasons only EMUs could stop there, although initially only 5 of the 13 trains each way on weekdays were operated by EMUs. The halt (along with the locality) was initially called Dolly Varden, but was changed to Mana as many local residents did not like the name (from Dickens's Barnaby Rudge

Barnaby Rudge

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels that Dickens published in his short-lived weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock...

).

Double tracking north to Mana was opened on 7 November 1960. Mana station was built to fit into the duplication project:

and the two platforms were ready some time before … As the new line was on a different alignment to the old, a temporary wooden platform was built to fit in the gap between the old track and the new platforms. This gave the station the appearance of an aircraft carrier flight deck.