Kakahi, New Zealand
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Kakahi is a small King Country settlement about 10 kilometres up the Whanganui River from Taumarunui, New Zealand. Founded as a sawmill town, it takes its name from the Māori word for the New Zealand
Kakahi in the early 1900s
Taupō railway proposals
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There have been a number of proposals to build a Taupō railway line as a branch railway linking the township of Taupō in the central North Island of New Zealand to New Zealand's rail network. One prop
Kakahi, New Zealand
…and Whakapapa River meet about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) to the east, and a similar distance down the Whakapapa River from the end of Te Rena Road (an old logging tram line). Te Rena Road is notable for extensive colonies of glowworms along the sheer banks where the road cuts deeply through the hillside. Kakahi has a long…
Kakahi cutting and Whakapapa River about 1914. The incline appears to have been rope worked
The railway cutting east of Kakahi is now Te Rena Road and best known for its glowworms