Paraparaumu railway station

Paraparaumu railway station in Paraparaumu on the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand is an intermediate station on the Kapiti Line section of the North Island Main Trunk for Metlink's electric multiple unit commuter trains from Wellington.

Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, stop at Paraparaumu.

After the WMR line was acquired by the Government in 1908 the station continued to serve passengers on NIMT services.

In 1961 the station building was replaced with a modern design, built to serve both trains and Road Service buses.

These services were hauled by diesel locomotives – usually the DA class – from Paekākāriki which was the-then terminus of the electrification.

The electrification was subsequently extended to Paraparaumu and opened on 7 May 1983, soon after the arrival of the Ganz-Mavag EM/ET class EMUs which dominated services for most of the next 30 years.

In 2018, there were complaints that the station access ramps and subways were too steep for disabled users (with a grade of 1 in 8 rather than 1 in 12) and were slippery.