Opapa railway station is a preserved station on the Palmerston North–Gisborne Line in New Zealand's North Island that closed in 1981. It is in the Hastings District of Hawke's Bay, 23.56 km (14.64 mi) south of Hastings city, in a census meshblock with a population of only 222 in 2018.
Stereograph of NZR J class (1874) at Te Aute Station during a trial run from Napier to Waipukurau in 1887
JA class on Opapa bank in 2003
Palmerston North–Gisborne Line
The Palmerston North–Gisborne Line (PNGL) is a secondary main line railway in the North Island of New Zealand. It branches from the North Island Main Trunk at Palmerston North and runs east through the Manawatū Gorge to Woodville, where it meets the Wairarapa Line, and then proceeds to Hastings and Napier in Hawke's Bay before following the coast north to Gisborne. Construction began in 1872, but the entire line was not completed until 1942. The line crosses the runway of Gisborne Airport, one of the world's only railways to do so since Pakistan's Khyber Pass Railway closed.
Tahoraiti railway station in 1912, south of Dannevirke.
Westbound train on the Manawatū Gorge, viewed from the White Horse Rapids lookout.
Napier-Wairoa Souvenir Timetable 1939
DC4398 shunts milk tanks from Palmerston North at Oringi, 2008