Ohotu railway station | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°43′S175°50′E / 39.71°S 175.83°E | ||||||||||
| Elevation | 396 m (1,299 ft) | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | North Island Main Trunk | ||||||||||
| Distance | Wellington 247.09 km (153.53 mi) | ||||||||||
| Connections | until 5 January 1915 known as Egmont Box Co's siding | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 21 November 1904 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 10 August 1959 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | June 1988 | ||||||||||
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Ohotu railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand. [1] [2] When the station closed to all traffic, on 10 August 1959, it had a shelter shed and passenger platform. [3] It was part of the 13+1⁄2 mi (21.7 km) Mangaweka to Taihape section, opened by the Prime Minister, Richard Seddon, on 21 November 1904. [4] The station was across the Hautapu River from Torere village, which had been surveyed in 1896. [5]
Only a single track remains through the station site and there is little sign that there was ever a station there. [6]
The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of [the] fifteenth night of the moon" for Ōhotu. [7]
From 1908 Egmont Box Co had a sawmill at Ohutu, sometimes called Utiku, [8] or Torere. [9] [10] When the track laying reached Ohotu in April 1904, it was described as Torere Junction. [11] From 5 January 1915 Egmont Box Co's siding, was renamed Ohotu [12] and it then became a booking station handling passengers and parcels. [13] The name of the post office changed from Ohutu to Ohotu in 1925. [14]
From 1908 until its closure in 1926, [14] Egmont Box Co's mill cut roughly 42,000,000 board feet (99,000 m3) of kahikatea, mainly for butter boxes, [15] in addition to some rimu. [8] Its tramway was extended as the bush was cut, [8] until it was cut out in 1921 and the mill closed. [15] The centre span of the 120 ft (37 m) Howe Truss bridge, [16] 160 ft (49 m) above the river, built of timbers up to 16 in (410 mm) thick, [17] which had been built by Sykes the & Shaw in 1911, [18] developed a crack which made it dangerous [15] to run their Climax locomotive [11] over it, so trucks were pulled over with a winch. [15] When the bush was cut out the bridge was sold for scrap. During demolition in 1923 it collapsed, killing one man and injuring another. [17]
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