Parnell

Parnell railway station is a station serving the inner-city suburb of Parnell in Auckland, New Zealand. It is situated on the Newmarket Line, approximately 600m north of Parnell Tunnel, and is located in the Waipapa Valley adjacent to Auckland Domain.

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Type: Railway station
Description: railway station
Also known as: “Parnell railway station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Auckland War Memorial Museum and Church of St. John the Baptist, Parnell.

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Museum

Photo: Auckland War Memorial Museum, CC BY 2.0.

The Auckland War Memorial Museum, also known as Auckland Museum, is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials. Its neoclassical building constructed in the 1920s and 1950s, stands on Observatory Hill, the remains of a dormant volcano, in the Auckland Domain, near Auckland CBD. Auckland War Memorial Museum is situated 650 metres south of Parnell.

Church of St. John the Baptist, Parnell

Church

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Church of St. John the Baptist is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church located in Parnell, a suburb of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. Church of St. John the Baptist, Parnell is situated 260 metres east of Parnell.

Auckland Domain

Park

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The Auckland Domain, also known as Pukekawa / Auckland Domain, is a large park in Auckland, New Zealand. Consisting of 75 hectares of land, Auckland Domain is the oldest park in the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parnell and Carlaw Park.

Parnell

Suburb

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Parnell is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It is one of New Zealand's most affluent suburbs, consistently ranked within the top three wealthiest, and is often billed as Auckland's "oldest suburb" since it dates from the earliest days of the European settlement of Auckland in 1841.

Carlaw Park

Neighborhood

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Carlaw Park was a multi-purpose stadium in Parnell, a central suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It neighboured the Auckland Domain's Northern end. It was primarily used for rugby league and had a peak spectator capacity of around 28,000 in the 1930s, though this fell to around 17,000 by the time the ground was closed in 2002.