Wellington railway station is the main railway hub of New Zealand's capital city, serving as the southern terminus of the North Island Main Trunk, the Wairarapa Line and the Johnsonville Line. It opened on 19 June 1937, replacing two earlier separate terminals at Lambton and Thorndon, and was designed by W. Gray Young of the Wellington firm Gray Young, Morton and Young in a neo-Georgian style, chosen without a design competition. Built on reclaimed harbor land, the U-shaped building was the first major structure in New Zealand designed with significant earthquake resistance, and its main entrance opens through eight Doric columns 13 meters high into a large booking hall that once included dining facilities, shops and a nursery. When completed it was the country's largest building and originally housed the head office of the New Zealand Railways Department; it was registered as a Category 1 Historic Place in 1986 and carries a First World War memorial listing 450 railway department staff killed in the war.
Facts
Building Type LocationBunny Street, Pipitea, Wellington, New Zealand 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wellington Railway Station (Wikidata)
Uses Element
Source Wellington railway station - Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wellington railway station - Wikipedia
Introduction, paragraph 1
is the main railway station serving Wellington, New Zealand
Infobox, address
Bunny Street, Pipitea, Wellington, New Zealand
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Wellington railway station is the main railway hub of New Zealand's capital city, serving as the southern terminus of the North Island Main Trunk, the Wairarapa Line and the Johnsonville Line. It opened on 19 June 1937, replacing two earlier separate terminals at Lambton and Thorndon, and was designed by W. Gray Young of the Wellington firm Gray Young, Morton and Young in a neo-Georgian style, chosen without a design competition. Built on reclaimed harbor land, the U-shaped building was the first major structure in New Zealand designed with significant earthquake resistance, and its main entrance opens through eight Doric columns 13 meters high into a large booking hall that once included dining facilities, shops and a nursery. When completed it was the country's largest building and originally housed the head office of the New Zealand Railways Department; it was registered as a Category 1 Historic Place in 1986 and carries a First World War memorial listing 450 railway department staff killed in the war.
Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia article
On top of the piles a five- and six-storey steel-framed structure was built.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Wellington Railway Station
- Wikidata Q505487, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q505487, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the SourceWellington Railway Station (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1937)
Wikidata item Q505487, property P1619: 1937
In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Wikidata P149
architectural style: Neoclassical architecture
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