Martinborough Branch
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The Martinborough Branch was a proposed railway line that would have connected the south Wairarapa town of Martinborough to the Wairarapa Line in New Zealand’s North Island. It was to have been used b
Site of the proposed Martinborough railway station and terminus of the Martinborough Branch line, behind the church on the corner of Princess Street and Kitchener Street.
Terminus of the Greytown Branch. Had the Woodside – Martinborough route been selected, the Greytown Branch would have been extended through the reserve behind the trees and across State Highway 2 beyond.
Greytown Branch
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The Greytown Branch was a five-kilometre 3 ft 6 in branch line railway off the Wairarapa Line at Woodside in the Wairarapa district of New Zealand's North Island. It followed an almost straight course
Martinborough Branch
…lorries and buses. No further proposals for the line were advocated. The final blow to any chance of a branch line to Martinborough came in 1953 when the Greytown Branch closed. Following the meeting with Joseph Ward in 1907, local politician John Hornsby stated that if the government was unable to commit the necessary…
End of the line.
The approach into Woodside yard from the Greytown Branch.
Some railway remnants near where the line entered Woodside yard.
The fence line (away from the camera, centre) follows the route of the Greytown Branch into Woodside yard.