Rimutaka Incline
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The Rimutaka Incline was a 3-mile-long, 3 ft 6 in gauge railway line on an average grade of 1-in-15 using the Fell system between Summit and Cross Creek stations on the Wairarapa side of the original
The long slow climb up the centre rail
Passenger train at unknown date
The largest engine on the Rimutaka, at the Summit
Fell engine at rest circa 1880
Remutaka Range
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The Remutaka Range is the southernmost range of a mountain chain in the lower North Island of New Zealand. The chain continues north into the Tararua, then Ruahine Ranges, running parallel with the ea
Rimutaka Incline
…parliament was passed, a survey party set out to make preliminary investigations of possible routes for a railway over the Rimutaka Range (now spelled "Remutaka Range"). These were complete by December 1870, the party having investigated four routes. A commonality between all the proposals was the section from Upper…
Mount Matthews, 940 metres, seen from Kelburn, Wellington
State Highway 2 (Rimutaka Hill Road) seen from near the top of the pass 555 metres (1,821 ft)
World War I soldiers resting at the top of the Rimutaka hill road. On completing training at Featherston they marched over the hill to Wellington to board ship for France's trenches.
Abbots Creek toll-bridge on the Rimutaka road in 1875