Kaitoke railway station

Kaitoke
Formerly New Zealand Government Railways (NZGR)
Trains crossing at Kaitoke Station. Class Wb locomotives, 1901
General information
LocationStation Drive, Kaitoke
Coordinates41°5′4.22″S 175°10′5.02″E / 41.0845056°S 175.1680611°E / -41.0845056; 175.1680611
Owned byFormerly Railways Department
Now in private ownership
Line(s)Formerly part of Wairarapa Line
PlatformsSingle
Tracks1 main line, 1 crossing loop
History
Opened28 December 1877 (1877-12-28)
Closed30 October 1955 (1955-10-30)
Previous namesPakuratahi
Kaitoki
Notes
Previous Station: Mangaroa Station
Next Station: Summit Station
The gate on the southern approach to Kaitoke station that marks the end of public access and the boundary of private property that includes the former Kaitoke station yard.
Kaitoke station northern approach. The access road that connects with the Rimutaka Rail Trail (bottom) cuts through the original northern approach formation. Also visible is one of the houses erected on the Kaitoke station yard area.
The last 240 metres of the southern approach to Kaitoke station with public access is disused and overgrown.

Kaitoke railway station was a single-platform rural railway station on the Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt and Featherston in the Wellington region of New Zealand's North Island. Initially it was the railhead of the Wairarapa Line, at a point where the railway met the main road between Upper Hutt and the Wairarapa. Later it was a point at which locomotives were changed, steam engines were watered, trains could cross, and passengers could make use of the refreshment room.

The station was closed along with the old route via the Rimutaka Incline on which the Fell system was used over the Rimutaka Ranges when the Rimutaka Deviation opened in 1955.