page_title: Lambton railway station
section_title: Featherston Street opposite Mulgrave Street
hierarchical_section_title: Lambton railway station / Featherston Street opposite Mulgrave Street
caption_attribution_description: English: left front - Lambton railway station in Featherston Street about to be demolished far right - NZR HQ in Featherston Street, gable end facing Bunny Street centre - new Wellington railway station and NZR HQ opened June 1937
context_page_description: Lambton originally Wellington railway station in Featherston Street, Wellington, New Zealand was the southern passenger terminus for the Hutt Line and the Wairarapa Line from 1885 to 1936 and for lines further north until December 1908. Wellington's third railway station it had been preceded by station buildings temporarily at Pipitea Point and a site further south on Featherston Street beside Wellington's rail freight depot and its Railway Wharf.
  The Manawatu line Thorndon station was built hastily in the spring of 1885 after the Manawatu line company and the Government failed to agree to share Lambton station.
  Lambton station's platform closed in July 1936. Wairarapa and Hutt passengers continued to use the building's facilities and its temporary access to the new platforms until the unfinished Bunny Street building opened. The ticket office stayed open until 11:15pm on 19 June 1937, which was Bunny Street's official opening day, then this building was demolished.
context_section_description: The building at 75 Featherston Street was picked up, put on rollers and taken further north up Featherston Street to the far side of Bunny Street.
  It was placed opposite the foot of Mulgrave Street and its junction with Sydney Street now Kate Sheppard Place.
  It opened to passengers in late February 1885. 
  This building's name was changed from Wellington railway station to Lambton railway station in December 1908 after the Government acquired the Thorndon railway station along with Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company. By that time, 1908, the building was considered well beneath the required standard but it remained in use almost another thirty years until it was demolished in 1937. When Lambton station was eventually demolished it was noted by the local newspaper that the building had been vilified for more than twenty years and had been plainly rotten long before its demolition.
  Wairarapa and Hutt passengers were moved to the new suburban platforms of the unfinished new Bunny Street building. The first Hutt Valley trains ran from the new platforms on 20 July 1936.
  Lambton station's building was demolished shortly after the Bunny Street building opened.
caption: Featherston Street showing old Lambton station, the back of the new Bunny Street HQ and station and in the distance a Bunny Street gable of the old NZR HQ
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