page_title: Hamilton railway station, New Zealand
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Hamilton railway station, New Zealand / Services
caption_attribution_description: English: Northern Explorer southbound train at Hamilton
context_page_description: Hamilton railway station serves the city of Hamilton in the Waikato region of New Zealand. It is located in the suburb of Frankton, hence the station's former name Frankton Junction, its name for most of its existence. The station is located at the junction of the North Island Main Trunk and East Coast Main Trunk lines. Only the NIMT still carries passenger services, which consist only of Northern Explorer services between Auckland and Wellington on six days of the week.
context_section_description: About 2008, the canopy over platform 1 (NIMT) was reduced in length. The ECMT carries no passenger services and its platform (platform 2) is used infrequently by excursion trains.
  Passenger services are limited to the Northern Explorer, which replaced The Overlander in 2012. Previous services include the Kaimai Express and Geyserland Express railcars to Tauranga and Rotorua (Koutu) respectively, which were cancelled in 2002, and the overnight Northerner, which ceased operation in 2004 under Toll Rail.
  The Waikato Connection commuter service to Auckland ran in 2000 and 2001. It is planned to reintroduce a similar service in 2020 using refurbished SA and SD coaches; initially to Papakura railway station. This proposed service, to commence from 3 August 2020, has been branded as Te Huia.
caption: Northern Explorer at Hamilton in 2018 heading south
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