Te Mawhai railway station explained

Te Mawhai railway station
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates:-38.0448°N 175.3054°W
Line:North Island Main Trunk
Distance:Wellington 512.86km (318.68miles)
Opened:9 March 1887
Closed:12 May 1962
Electrified:June 1988
Elevation:36m (118feet)
Former:Te Puhi to 10 December 1912[1]

Te Mawhai railway station was a flag station on the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand.[2] [3] Its primary traffic was supplies to the nearby Tokanui Psychiatric Hospital. The hospital was situated to be convenient for freight and passengers by rail and a light railway connection to the hospital was considered.[4]

Surveying to extend the railway from Te Awamutu to Ōtorohanga was started in 1883 by Charles Wilson Hursthouse.[5] The first sod ceremony was performed at the Puniu River on 15 April 1885.[6] Trains were working through to Ōtorohanga by January 1887,[7] but the line wasn't handed over from the Public Works Department to the Railways Department until March 1887.[8] Initially trains only ran on Tuesdays and Thursdays.[9]

By 1896 there was a shelter shed, platform, cart approach and a passing loop for 27 wagons, extended to 38 by 1911.[10]

In 1912 a meeting asked for a loading bank, cattle yards, caretaker and goods shed and to change the name from Te Puhi to the same as the post office, Te Mawhai.[11] The name was changed,[12] a goods shed was added in 1915[13] and improved in 1916,[14] telephone came in 1921, urinals were added in 1922,[15] £895 was spent on improving stock loading in 1929 and electric light came in 1933.[16]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations in New Zealand. Juliet. Scoble. https://web.archive.org/web/20200117221148/http://www.railheritage.org.nz/assets/dates_and_names.pdf. 17 January 2020.
  2. Book: New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas. 1965. Quail Map Co.. 3 & 4. First.
  3. Book: Pierre, Bill. North Island Main Trunk. 1981. A.H&A.W Reed. Wellington. 0589013165. 289–290.
  4. Web site: 1 Aug 1910. King Country Asylum. WAIKATO ARGUS. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  5. Web site: 15 Mar 1883. NATIVE OBSTRUCTION. NEW ZEALAND HERALD. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  6. Web site: 16 Apr 1885. THE NORTH ISLAND TRUNK RAILWAY. TURNING THE FIRST SOD. WAIKATO TIMES. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  7. Web site: 13 Jan 1887. THE MAIN TRUNK LINE. NEW ZEALAND HERALD. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  8. Web site: 10 Mar 1887. LATEST TE AWAMUTU NEWS. WAIKATO TIMES. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  9. Web site: 13 Apr 1887. NEW ZEALAND HERALD. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  10. Web site: Stations. 2020-08-10. NZR Rolling Stock Lists. en.
  11. Web site: 8 Oct 1912. TE PUHI. WAIPA POST. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  12. Web site: 25 Oct 1912. TE PUHI RAILWAY FACILITIES. WAIKATO TIMES. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  13. Web site: 1915. RAILWAYS STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, THE HON. W. H. HERRIES. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  14. Web site: 1916. RAILWAYS STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, THE HON. W. H. HERRIES. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  15. Web site: 1922. RAILWAYS STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, HON. D. H. GUTHRIE. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
  16. Web site: 1933. RAILWAYS STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, THE HON. W. A. VEITCH. 2021-03-17. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.

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