Taringamotu Tramway

Taringamotu Tramway
The Taringamotu Express at Oruaiwi, 1922
Barclay steam locomotive for the Taringa-
mutu (sic) Totara Sawmill Company, 1910
Technical
Track gauge3+12 feet (1,067 mm)
Route map

Connection to NZR NIMT at Waituhi
North Island Main Trunk
Taringamutu Totara Sawmill Company
Trestle bridge over Taringamotu River
Junction into the bush
Frank Ward’s double-deck viaduct
Trestle viaduct crossing a gully
Tunnel built in 1922
Junction into the bush
Tracks in the bush

Taringamotu Tramway, nicknamed Taringamotu Express, was a bush tramway near Oruaiwi, also known as Waituhi, a settlement in the valley of Taringamotu in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It operated from 1910 to the mid 1960s.[1]