Durham Road Cemetery

Durham Road station (like neighbouring Norfolk Road) opened as an unattended flag stop on 17 December 1879 when the railway line was first pushed south of Inglewood. It was named for the rural Durham Road that crossed the railway there. The station was simple and located close to the level crossing with the road it was named after. In the 1880s, local residents raised concerns about the safety of the level crossing and the need for better facilities. There are records of a “dangerous crossing at Durham Road” being complained about in 1888, and proposals to alter the station's site to improve that crossing in the 1880s. By the mid-1890s the Railways Department listed the following amenities…

There is little to indicate the location of Durham Road railway station today, with no platforms or buildings remaining. Durham Road station site is now the site of a roading metal dump, which the former dairy factory has also closed and now hosts a business specialising in loader parts. The Marton–New Plymouth line itself is still in use for freight trains, but there is no sign that trains once stopped at these locations.