Raurimu railway station

Raurimu railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk, and in the Manawatū-Whanganui region.

Raurimu railway station

It opened in 1906 and closed in 1978. It was known as Pukerimu from 1906 to 1908.[1]

The Raurimu Spiral is 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi) from the station, and rises 200 metres (660 ft) to the National Park railway station on the North Island Volcanic Plateau; on a direct line this would be a gradient of 1 in 24, but the Raurimu Spiral reduces the gradient to a (still steep) 1 in 52.

Raurimu

In 1906 the administrative office of the northern section of the Public Works Department (PWD) which was building the NIMT was moved to a group of "tents and huts" at Raurimu, and at its zenith the Raurimu community numbered a thousand men, women and children.[2]

The settlement of Raurimu in the early 20th century had two bush tramways for forestry; Knight's tram, Raurimu of the Raumiru Sawmilling Co (1935-1957) and a tramway of the Pokata Timber Co (1930-1957).

  • Knight's tram and a steam hauler, Raurimu, in a clearing in the bush
  • Price type "O" bush locomotive at Raurimu, ca. 1917
  • Offices of the Tamaki Sawmill Co. at Raurimu railway station
  • Raurimu Spiral in 2007 (no remains of tramways visible)
  • Map of the spiral, from OpenStreetMap

References
  1. Juliet Scoble: Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations in New Zealand
  2. Pierre, W.A. (Bill) (1981). North Island Main Trunk: An Illustrated History. Auckland: A.H. & A.W. Reed. p. 92. ISBN 0-589-01316-5.

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