Join us for Anzac Day services

Several services take place in Lower Hutt on Anzac Day as part of the WW100 events from 2014-2019 which commemorate New Zealand’s participation in the First World War.

In addition to dawn services in Lower Hutt, Wainuiomata and Taita, and regular services in Eastbourne and Stokes Valley, this year’s Petone service has a special commemoration.

One of the first anniversaries of the Gallipoli landings took place on New Zealand soil on 25 April 1916. To commemorate the occasion, railwaymen from Petone Workshops and Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia exchanged national flags.

At Petone on 25 April 1916 an Australian Red Ensign was unfurled from a commemorative flagstaff, the top section made from kauri and the bottom from Australian hardwood to symbolise "the unity of Australian and New Zealand railwaymen in peace and war".

To mark the centenary of this notable event, Hutt City Council and KiwiRail warmly invite you to attend the 7am Anzac Day service at Petone, and then later to enjoy a steam train ride aboard the Passchendaele Express, a train of classic carriages hauled by steam locomotive Ab 608.

Steam train ride tickets: $5 - all proceeds go to charity.

Tickets must be purchased prior to event from Wellington and Petone Railway Stations or Lower Hutt i-SITE.

Travel on the steam train is one-way only, Wellington to Taita or Taita to Wellington (normal trains will be available for your return trip).

• Wellington Railway Station depart 10am
• Taita Railway Station depart 11am
• Wellington Railway Station depart 12noon
• Taita Railway Station depart 1pm

Details of services:
LOWER HUTT DAWN SERVICE
5.45am: Parade assembles outside the Civic Centre, Laings Road, Lower Hutt
6am: Dawn Service held at the Cenotaph, adjacent to the Lower Hutt Memorial Library, Riddiford Gardens, Queens Drive, Lower Hutt
 
WAINUIOMATA DAWN SERVICE
6am: Dawn Service held at the Wainuiomata War Memorial, Queen Street, Wainuiomata
10.55am: Parade assembles at the BP Service Station
11am: Anzac Service, Queen Street, Wainuiomata
 
TAITA DAWN SERVICE
7.50am: Parade assembles at the Taita RSA and marches around to the Walter Nash Centre.
8am: Service held at the Walter Nash Centre, Taine Street, Taita
10.30am: Parade assembles at Taita Lawn Cemetery gate, Rimu Street, Naenae
10.45am: Service held at Taita Lawn Cemetery
 
PETONE SERVICE
7am: Flag Ceremony, Anzac Memorial Flagstaff, Petone Railway Station
8.15am: Parade assembles in Bracken Street, Petone
8.30am: Service held at the Garden of Remembrance, Memorial Park, Petone
 
CIVIC SERVICE
9.45am: Civic Service held at the Cenotaph, adjacent to the Lower Hutt Memorial Library, Riddiford Gardens, Queens Drive, Lower Hutt
 
Refreshments will be held in the Hutt City Church, 22 Marsden Street, Lower Hutt. If wet weather, the service will be moved to the Hutt City Church.
 
EASTBOURNE SERVICE
9.40am: Parade assembles at Ballinger Park, Oroua Street, Eastbourne
10am: Service held at the Memorial Gates, Muritai Road, Eastbourne
 
STOKES VALLEY SERVICE
10.45am: Parade assembles Scott Court, Stokes Valley
11am: Service held at the Stokes Valley Memorial Returned Services Association, Hawthorn Crescent, Stokes Valley