This line is now part of the Kapiti section of the North Island Main Trunk.
Significant infrastructure improvements were also carried out on the North Island Main Trunk in the mid-1980s, some as part of the electrification scheme.
Connections were made at Frankton Junction with services on the North Island Main Trunk.
The station had existed before the North Island Main Trunk had been completed.
Raurimu Spiral on the North Island Main Trunk, single track, suitable hill, two short tunnels.
However, they were converted once it was decided that these locomotives would operate on other than just the North Island Main Trunk express freight trains.
In 2009, work started on a passenger branch railway from the North Island Main Trunk at Puhinui.
State Highway 49 continues southeast across rolling hills, running broadly in the same direction as the North Island Main Trunk.
It was proposed in 1878, that the link between the North Island Main Trunk and the Napier line would be here.
Four of the locomotives were introduced for operation on the North Island Main Trunk.
This line is now part of the Kapiti section of the North Island Main Trunk.
Significant infrastructure improvements were also carried out on the North Island Main Trunk in the mid-1980s, some as part of the electrification scheme.
Connections were made at Frankton Junction with services on the North Island Main Trunk.
The station had existed before the North Island Main Trunk had been completed.
Raurimu Spiral on the North Island Main Trunk, single track, suitable hill, two short tunnels.
However, they were converted once it was decided that these locomotives would operate on other than just the North Island Main Trunk express freight trains.
In 2009, work started on a passenger branch railway from the North Island Main Trunk at Puhinui.
State Highway 49 continues southeast across rolling hills, running broadly in the same direction as the North Island Main Trunk.
It was proposed in 1878, that the link between the North Island Main Trunk and the Napier line would be here.
Four of the locomotives were introduced for operation on the North Island Main Trunk.