Frankton Junction, New Zealand edition. Hamilton - New Zealand
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S 37° 47.458 E 175° 15.920
60H E 347263 N 5815959
Frankton Junction, now known as Hamilton Railway Station, in the suburb of Frankton, Hamilton
Waymark Code: WMP83Q
Location: New Zealand
Date Posted: 07/17/2015
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Frankton was once home to Frankton Junction, a very important railway station, and the now-closed Frankton Tea Rooms, where passenger trains without dining cars would stop to allow passengers to purchase food and drinks. Many workshops and railway workers homes were in the area west of the railway.
Today, it still acts as the location of the junction of the North Island Main Trunk Railway and the East Coast Main Trunk Railway, and is Hamilton's only passenger railway station, but now freight trains are handled at the Te Rapa yards further north and only the Northern Explorer passenger train stops six days a week on its journey between Auckland and Wellington.
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