Station Rd – Short Road/Short Street was incorporated into Station Street. Named because it led to the Heathcote Railway Station. Station Road is first mentioned in the Star in 1873 in a report of a meeting of the Heathcote Road Board. First appears in street directories in 1903. Short Road first appears in street directories in 1902. Becomes Short Street in 1924. Incorporated into Station Road in 1950.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I found the same article dated 1873 on Papers Past. Station Rd was a very common name.There were older wooden villas on one side of the street and the railway line on the other side. There is a great little shop called Heathcote Valley Gallery here but thankfully it wasn’t open as I suspect I would overspend here. There would have been a railway station here but I don’t know when it was demolished. Passengers trains stopped running a long time ago. I used to travel on the school train from Lyttelton to Christchurch but just can’t remember what the station looked like. I have a vision of a wooden building with a verandah style of shelter. It is possible had a really nice garden area as there were articles in Papers Past about the wonderful roses in the station’s garden. If anyone remembers the railway station you can correct me.
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