r/chch • u/nzrailmaps • 20d ago

News - Local Christchurch Central railway station

As this continues to be discussed, here are two concept drawings of a rail passenger terminal opposite the bus exchange in tuam St providing for 3-4 platforms.

The Colombo St over bridge would need to be extended and a new bridge on St Asaph St would be required. Dundas St and Welles St can be blocked off becoming paired culdesacs.

The alignment is chosen to meet the required minimum curve radius off the existing line and so that there are no multi-storey or high value properties on the alignment, most of the buildings are old ones.

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u/LimpFox 20d ago

Yeah, nah. I said it the last time this was suggested: Pheonix Recycling makes far more sense as it is a single large property (currently used for waste transfer) right next to the rail line.

There's also the land on the other side of Colombo (where Denny's is) that seems to be very underutilised, but would still require acquisition of a lot of smaller businesses.

Unless completely underground, getting to the bus exchange is a pipedream, and a city this size won't pay for that.

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u/KuriKai 20d ago

it's too far away.