Ava railway station
Ava is a suburban railway station serving parts of Petone and Alicetown in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It is located in a residential area bordering these two suburbs, north of Wellington, and is part of the Hutt Valley Line. Services are operated by Transdev Wellington on behalf of the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Trains stopping at Ava run to Wellington, Taitā and Upper Hutt. The station has an island platform between double tracks with a pedestrian overbridge at each end of the platform, connecting the station with Wakefield Street and Alicetown to the north, and North Street  and Petone to the south. History. The station was one of the three new stations on the then Hutt Valley Branch opened on 26 May 1927. Provisionally referred to as "the Cuba Street station", it was eventually named Ava after another nearby street. From 1 March 1954 with the closing of the Melling to Haywards section, this route became the main route to Upper Hutt and the Wairarapa. Ava initially had sidings, which had been removed by 1970. In 1976, the original 1927 building was replaced by a new shelter. On the night of 8 December 2014, a northbound "Matangi