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, connecting the capital city Wellington with the Palmerston North–
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.
The Remutaka Tunnel is a railway tunnel through New Zealand's Remutaka Range, between Maymorn, near Upper Hutt, and Featherston, on the Wairarapa Line.
Wairarapa Line
…line diverted to the east of the Hutt River between Petone and Haywards to serve new housing developments in Lower Hutt, and the construction of the Rimutaka Tunnel to replace the Rimutaka Incline. Part of the former route west of the Hutt River has been retained as the Melling Branch. The southern portion of the…
Rimutaka Tunnel Opening Ceremony, 3 November 1955