Helensville Railway Station

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We are Building a new Railway Museum. CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN. SEE GALLERY

The Project. Presently the railway station building (which dates back to 1881), houses tenants compromising a Café, Gift Shop, Florist and Art Gallery.

 A small room is used as a facility to display various items of railway memorabilia related to the historic railway activities that took place in Helensville. The Trust has been gifted a large working railway model which has been constructed by Mr. Ross Hughes of Auckland. This model depicts the railway station and its environs including many heritage buildings as they were in the 1950s and 1960s and as such is a true and accurate replica of this historic era. All items of this model have been constructed by hand by Mr. Hughes over many years and it is his wish that it be made available for public display.

The Trust wishes to construct a new building to house this model and also in which to house our historical collection of railway artifacts and information. The present room in the station, used for this display, is not big enough to house all of our collection including the Ross Hughes model and moving the collections to a new purpose built building will enable the existing room to be tenanted thus enhancing our income to allow us to continue to maintain the property to the highest of standards for the furtherance of the heritage aspects of our charitable purposes.

We need for the new building because we do not have adequate space to display our present railway heritage collection with the addition of the Ross Hughes model. The model is quite unique as it specifically models New Zealand Railways equipment, rolling stock, buildings, as well as local heritage buildings many of which no longer exist.

The new building is located at the southern end of our property. Total-Span have been contracted to build a heritage style building on the site and we need over $100,000 to complete the project. So far we have risen over $60,000.

Railway Station Kiwis.

Have you got a railway station kiwi? Price $10.00 each with Helensville Railway Station and train logo on a white tee-shirt. Are proving popular limited number are available. These are available at the station.

Raffle

Our raffle has now been drawn. May 2012.

The prizewinners are:

First Prize: Brett Foley, Ticket 4657, BBQ and utensils.

Second Prize: Karen Bennett, 3869, Wheelbarrow and garden products.

Third Prize: Christine Grace, 0036, Fishing charter.

Fourth Prize: Sherie, 4924, Computer service voucher and gift voucher.

Fifth Prize: Cathie Timmins, 2002, Car care cleaning set.

 Thanks to the following for generous assistance with the prizes:

Mitre 10 Helensville

Farmlands Helensville

Oikoumene Forest Ltd

Take Note Helensville

Kings Plant Barn Silverdale

Shamrock Charters Helensville

Computer Solutions Helensville

Countdown Helensville

RD1 Helensville

Thanks to Abbey Press for assistance printing tickets.