Ngapara and Tokarahi Branches

Ngapara & Tokarahi Branches
Overview
Other name(s)	Livingstone Branch Taylor's Siding Waiareka Industrial Line
Status	Closed
Locale	Otago, New Zealand
Termini	Waiareka Junction Ngapara & Tokarahi
Service
Type	Heavy Rail
System	New Zealand Government Railways (NZGR)
Services	2
History
Opened	1877 to Ngapara
Tokarahi branch opens	1887
Tokarahi branch closed	1930
Closed beyond Cormacks	1959
Closed	1997
Technical
Number of tracks	Single
Character	Rural
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Route map Legend Main South Line km 0.00 Waiareka 2.58 Weston 4.74 Cormacks 6.40 Lorne Waiareka Creek 8.43 Enfield 11.93 Elderslie 16.52 0.00 Windsor Junction Tokarahi Branch 18.00 Corridale 21.48 Queens Flat 24.34 Ngapara Rakis Tunnel Tapui Tunnel Tapui Island Cliff 19.22 Tokarahi planned extension Livingstone This diagram: view talk edit

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The Ngapara and Tokarahi Branches were two connected railway branch lines in northern Otago, New Zealand, part of the national rail network. The Ngapara Branch opened in 1877 and almost all of it closed in 1959; the remaining few kilometres, called the Waiareka Industrial Line, were removed in 1997. The Tokarahi Branch branched off the Ngapara Branch. It operated from 1887 until 1930 and was originally known as the Livingstone Branch, though it never progressed beyond Tokarahi to Livingstone. In early 2008 there is a proposal to reinstate the first 4.5 km of the Ngapara Branch.