Wellington railway station has trains to Auckland, Masterton and Palmerston North and it is also the terminus for Wellington’s suburban rail network.
Long-distance trains using this station include the Capital Connection, Northern Explorer and Wairarapa Connection. The Northern Explorer has three services a week to Auckland with stops in Paraparaumu, Palmerston North, Ohakune, National Park, Otorohanga and Hamilton. The Capital Connection is a daily service to Palmerston North and the Wairarapa Connection operates five services a day to Masterton (six on Fridays, but only two services on Saturday and Sundays).
Suburban services are much more frequent with trains on most lines running every half hour. The most popular services for most visitors to Wellington is the Kapiti line for destinations on the Kapiti Coast including Plimmerton, Paekakariki and Paraparaumu.
Station facilities include a relatively expensive New World supermarket. Local buses stop at the bus station on Lambton Quay at the western edge of the station and long-distance InterCity coaches stop outside platform 9. ManaBus coaches to Auckland stop on Bunny Street across the road from the park at the front of the station.
In 2009 Wellington railway station was used as a location for filming an advertisement for The Trainline.
Wellington railway station is located on Bunny Street at the northeastern edge of the city centre. The closest backpackers hostel is Hotel Waterloo & Backpackers.