In 2020, I took this shot of a forgotten railway station in Waikato.
Mangapehi (or Mangapeehi) 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.
Ellis & Burnand had a sawmill at Mangapehi from 1901 until 1968.
In 1950 the station was moved almost a kilometer north, away from the sawmill, at a cost of £13,405. 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. https://kids.kiddle.co/Mangapehi_railway_station
As I looked for its history, I found that, sadly, it had been taken down on 2022.
2 comments:
I was glad to read a couple of years ago that they are beginning to reopen stations on the line... obviously not this one!
Oh my goodness that brought back memories - I am from the King Country, and all those names were so familiar!! It was probably derelict, which would have meant that it was a safety issue behind it's demolition.
Thanks so much for sharing
Blessings
Maxine
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