Kaitoke railway station
Kaitoke | |||||
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| Formerly New Zealand Government Railways (NZGR) | |||||
Trains crossing at Kaitoke Station. Class Wb locomotives, 1901 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Station Drive, Kaitoke | ||||
| Coordinates | 41°5′4.22″S 175°10′5.02″E / 41.0845056°S 175.1680611°E | ||||
| Owned by | Formerly Railways Department Now in private ownership | ||||
| Line(s) | Formerly part of Wairarapa Line | ||||
| Platforms | Single | ||||
| Tracks | 1 main line, 1 crossing loop | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 28 December 1877 | ||||
| Closed | 30 October 1955 | ||||
| Previous names | Pakuratahi Kaitoki | ||||
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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.