Wairarapa Line
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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.
Wellington railway station
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Wellington railway station, Wellington Central station, or simply Wellington station, is the main railway station serving Wellington, New Zealand, and is the southern terminus of the North Island Main
Wairarapa Line
…Society. Mixed trains also operated until the 1950s. In the 1950s, the Hutt Valley line was electrified using the 1500 V DC system already operating from Wellington to Johnsonville and Paekākāriki. The electrification was opened to Taitā on 12 October 1953 and Upper Hutt on 24 July 1955, allowing for a more intensive…
Wellington railway station façade, 2021.
Entrance to Wellington Railway Station in 2006.
Road Services buses at Platform 9 in 1957
The foundation stone