Whitecliffs Branch

Whitecliffs Branch
Glentunnel Railway Station
Overview
StatusClosed
OwnerRailways Department
LocaleCanterbury, New Zealand
Termini
Stations7
Service
TypeHeavy Rail
SystemNew Zealand Government Railways (NZGR)
Operator(s)Railways Department
History
Opened3 November 1875
Closed31 March 1962
Technical
Line length18.4 kilometres (11.4 mi)
Number of tracksSingle
CharacterRural
Track gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Route map

Darfield Junction
Hawkins
Blacks Stream bridge
Homebush
private siding to Bush Gully
Coalgate
(Bluff)
Homebush Road
Glentunnel Culvert bridge
Glentunnel
(Surveyors Gully)
Surveyors Gully bridge
South Malvern
Whitecliffs

The Whitecliffs Branch was an 18.4 kilometres (11.4 mi) long branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network in the Canterbury region of the South Island.[1] It was more industrial than the many rural branches on the South Island's east coast whose traffic primarily derived from agriculture, and it operated from 1875 until 1962.[2]

  1. ^ Bromby 2003, p. 86.
  2. ^ Churchman & Hurst 2001, p. 183.