Mangapehi railway station
Mangapehi station in 2018
General information
LocationNew Zealand
Coordinates38°31′01″S 175°18′28″E / 38.516878°S 175.307722°E / -38.516878; 175.307722
Elevation285 m (935 ft)
Line(s)North Island Main Trunk
DistanceWellington 449.47 km (279.29 mi)
History
Opened1 April 1901
ClosedPassenger after Sep 1980
Goods 31 March 1987
Rebuilt8 January 1950
ElectrifiedJune 1988
Services
Preceding station   Historical railways   Following station
Kopaki
Line open, station closed		   North Island Main Trunk
KiwiRail		   Poro-O-Tarao
Line open, station closed

Mangapehi[1] (or Mangapeehi)[2] was a flag station on the North Island Main Trunk line, in the Waitomo District of New Zealand. It was 5.89 km (3.66 mi) north of Poro-O-Tarao and 5.15 km (3.20 mi) south of Kopaki.[3]

Ellis & Burnand had a sawmill at Mangapehi from 1901[4] until 1968.[5]

Station move

In 1950 the station was moved almost a kilometre north, away from the sawmill,[6][7] at a cost of £13,405.[8] In that year it had 23,636 passengers, 4 staff and railed 148,093 board feet (349.46 m3) of timber and 28,633 sheep and pigs, earning £3,256 from passengers and £85,473 from freight.[9]

Tramway

A tramway was built into the bush to the east by Ellis and Burnand, initially with 11 mi (18 km) in 1903,[10] and extended further in 1904.[11] By 1909 it was over 14 mi (23 km), which had cost an average of over £1,000 per mile.[12] At 15 mi (24 km) it was slightly longer in 1922.[13] and by 1939 there were over 26 mi (42 km) of tramway[14] and 58 km (36 mi) when trucks took over in the 1950s.[5]

Gradients were up to 1 in 15, requiring the use of geared Climax locos from 1905,[15] which replaced horses[16] on wooden rails.[5] It also linked the station to the coal mines at Maniaiti / Benneydale.[6] The 1904 Climax is now in the Tokomaru Steam Engine Museum,[17] after ending service in 1954 and being briefly joined by another E & B Climax from their Manunui tramway.[18]

Coal from the Mangapehi mine used the line between 1936 and 1952.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "NZGB Gazetteer". gazetteer.linz.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Stations". NZR Rolling Stock Lists. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  3. ↑ New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas (Fourth ed.). Quail Map Co. 1993. ISBN 0-900609-92-3.
  4. ↑ Cleaver, Philip (February 2011). "Maori and the Forestry, Mining, Fishing, and Tourism Industries of the Rohe Potae Inquiry District 1880–2000" (PDF). Waitangi Tribunal.
  5. 1 2 3 4 King, Carolyn M.; Gaukrodger, D. John; Ritchie, Neville A. (7 November 2015). The Drama of Conservation: The History of Pureora Forest, New Zealand. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-18410-4.
  6. 1 2 "Ongarue one inch map, sheet N92". www.mapspast.org.nz. 1 November 1956. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Ongarue one inch map, sheet N92". www.mapspast.org.nz. 1974. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  8. ↑ "DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE WORKING RAILWAYS ACCOUNT". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 31 March 1951. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  9. ↑ "STATEMENT No. 18 Statement of Traffic and Revenue for each Station for the Year ended 31st March, 1950".
  10. ↑ "The Main Trunk Line". The New Zealand Herald. 6 May 1903. p. 3. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  11. ↑ "Local and General. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 23 March 1904. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  12. ↑ "REPORT of Commission on the Timber and Timber-Building Industries; together with Minutes of Proceedings and of Evidence". 1909.
  13. ↑ "A Great Industry! Ellis & Burnand Ltd. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 2 May 1922. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  14. ↑ "Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 2 June 1939. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  15. ↑ "Local and General. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 14 January 1905. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  16. ↑ "Waikato Argus". 18 April 1905. p. 2. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  17. ↑ "THE MUSEUM". Tokomaru Steam Engine Museum. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  18. ↑ "Climax Locomotives". www.trainweb.org. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
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