Hangatiki railway station | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Waitomo Caves Royal Mail coach at Hangatiki in 1920 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°15′38″S 175°10′53″E / 38.260559°S 175.181379°E | ||||||||||
| Elevation | 40 m (130 ft) | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | North Island Main Trunk | ||||||||||
| Distance | Wellington 485.2 km (301.5 mi) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 2 December 1887 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 31 January 1982 passenger, 13 October 1986 goods[1] | ||||||||||
| Electrified | June 1988 | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
,_1971_(south)_one_inch_to_one_mile_map_Hangatiki_-_Waitomo.jpg)
one inch to one mile map
(Source- Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and licensed by LINZ for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence)
Hangatiki railway station was a flag station on the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand.[2][3]
In 1915 Hangatiki was described as a small township with a post and telegraph office, where passengers for "the famous Waitomo and Ruakuri caves alight". The guidebook said Waitomo was 6 mi (9.7 km) away, "by good metalled road, a conveyance meeting the express trains and conveying passengers to the excellent Government Accommodation House at Waitomo." The fare was 2/6 each way (about $18[4] in 2015 money).[5]
- ^ "Juliet Scoble: Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations in New Zealand" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas (First ed.). Quail Map Co. 1965. pp. 3 & 4.
- ^ Pierre, Bill (1981). North Island Main Trunk. Wellington: A.H&A.W Reed. pp. 289–290. ISBN 0589013165.
- ^ "Inflation Calculator". www.rbnz.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ^ Bradbury, E E (1915). The Raglan and Kawhia Districts. Waikato University library: Bradbury. p. 85.