Duplicate Station Names

While NZR had a general policy of 'each Station Name will be unique', there were still some that got around the rules. Sometimes this was due to one being in the North Island and one in the South, but sometimes also with one already having been closed and a new one opened later.

As computer systems cannot differentiate implied differences, we need to make each unique. I have adopted the principle of adding a Province letter in brackets behind each duplicate pair, i.e. Waverley appears on both the Eyerton Branch and the Marton New Plymouth Line. The Southern one therefor becomes Waverley(C) for Canterbury, and the Northern one Waverley(T) for Taranaki.

The following is a list of Provincial letters

R - Northland

A - Auckland

W - Waikato

B - Bay of Plenty

K - King Country

T - Taranaki

M - Manawatu

H - Hawkes Bay

P - Wairarapa

L - Wellington

M - Marlborough

N - Nelson

W - West Coast

C - Canterbury

O - Otago

S - Southland

The following list shows all duplicate station names with their relevant District codes.

Waverley(T) - Taranaki

Waverley(C) - Canterbury

Stoke(N) - Nelson

Stoke(C) - Canterbury

This list is still incomplete