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Melling Line is expected to close for up to eighteen months from early 2025 to enable the RiverLink flood protection project to proceed. A new Melling station is to be built 250m south of the existing station, which will be preserved as a heritage building.
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Melling Station will be moved under the three 2018 NZTA options for replacing the Melling road bridge. The proposed Melling Interchange also involves flood protection work, and will be completed by 2026 (in 2019 the project had been put "on hold").
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729:"Melling line back to normal today"
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708:. Wellington: Fairfax New Zealand
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610:. Stuff/Fairfax. 29 January 2020.
558:"Asbestos found in train station"
538:. Lower Hutt: Fairfax New Zealand
621:EDWARDS, SIMON (15 April 2013).
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354:Pitcaithly's railway station
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