Fernside railway station was a flag station that served the small rural community of Fernside, north-east of Featherston in New Zealand’s North Island. It was located on the Wairarapa Line near the southern bank of the Tauherenikau River. The station opened to traffic in 1880 and closed nearly a century later in 1975.
Fernside station site in 2009.
The front edge of the station platform is still clearly visible beside the track.
The Wairarapa Line is a secondary railway line in the south-east of the North Island of New Zealand. The line runs for 172 kilometres (107 mi), connects the capital city Wellington with the Palmerston North - Gisborne Line at Woodville, via Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt and Masterton.
Woodside railway station
One of the special locomotives employed on the Rimutaka Incline, H 199, now preserved at the Fell Engine Museum.
EW1805, which operated on the Hutt Valley Line. It survived for preservation and is seen here with DC4611 near Paekākāriki on the North Island Main Trunk railway.
E 66 at Petone Workshops in February 1906, just after it was built.