| Mount Maunganui Branch | |||
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| Overview | |||
| Status | Open | ||
| Owner | KiwiRail | ||
| Locale | Tauranga | ||
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| Service | |||
| Type | Industrial | ||
| Operator(s) | KiwiRail | ||
| Technical | |||
| Line length | 6.50 km (4.04 mi) | ||
| Number of tracks | Single | ||
| Character | Industrial | ||
| Track gauge | 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) | ||
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The Mount Maunganui branch is a short industrial branch line in Tauranga, New Zealand, servicing the eastern side of the Port of Tauranga. It branches from the East Coast Main Trunk at a triangle junction outside Baypark Stadium before running north-west through Mount Maunganui to the port complex.
A number of services use the branch daily. Its primary traffic is bulk products - export timber and some timber products from local forests and the Kinlieth and Tasman mills; and coal destined for the Huntly power station and the New Zealand Steel mill at Glenbrook. It is also used for shunts to and from the container handling facilities of the Port of Tauranga, which are located at Sulphur Point on the other side of Tauranga Harbour. With 21 freight trains per day the line was estimated (1990) as the fifth busiest line in New Zealand.[1]
- ^ Churchman & Hurst 2001, p. 225.