Rimutaka Incline
Rimutaka Incline The Rimutaka Incline was a 3-mile (5-km) stretch ... followed steep gradients to climb over the Rimutaka Ranges, rather than passing through a ...
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Talk:Rimutaka Incline
Talk:Rimutaka Incline Please wikify this article, adding [[ ]] around topic ... who may have been involved with the Rimutaka Railway, here is a notice about a ... were involved in the construction of the Rimutaka Tunnel. It's to celebrate: Fifty years of the closing of the Rimutaka Incline and opening of the Tunnel. ...
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Rimutaka Tunnel
Rimutaka Tunnel Rimutaka Tunnel, rail tunnel through New Zealand's Rimutaka Ranges between Upper Hutt, near Wellington, and Featherston. Length The Rimutaka tunnel is the second-longest tunnel in ... miles). History The first shot of the Rimutaka Tunnel was fired in 1948. The ...
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Upper Hutt
... Land area 540km 2 Extent Silverstream to Rimutaka saddleto Wainui Peak near Paekakariki Mayor Wayne ... a 2500-m-wide floodplain between the Rimutaka and Akatarawa Ranges before constricting nine kilometres ... Hutt extends to the top of the Rimutaka saddle to the north-east and into ... northeast to southwest, include: Te Marua, Akatarawa, Rimutaka, Parkdale, Emerald Hill, Birchville, Mount Marua, Marua ... 1878. The line was continued over the Rimutaka Ranges to Featherston in the Wairarapa, ...
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Short history of NZ rail preservation
... ambitious heritage project to date is the Rimutaka Incline Railway which proposes to construct from scratch ... This is the route of the former Rimutaka Hill railway and Rimutaka Incline over a distance of some 20 ...
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Tunnels in New Zealand
... the longest rail tunnel in New Zealand. Rimutaka - 8798 m - opened 3 November 1955 - between ... Hutt (Wellington) and Featherston (Wairarapa), replaced the Rimutaka Incline, a Fell mountain railway. It is the ... tunnels, opened 12 October 1878 on the Rimutaka Incline (now a walkway). Okaihau - on the ...
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Upper Hutt (Wikitravel)
... Wairarapa, State Highway 2 travels over the Rimutaka Hill to Upper Hutt. There are major ... before Hutt Valley the entrance to the Rimutaka Tunnel, through to Masterton in the Wairarapa ... wildlife ass. At the top of the Rimutaka Hill you can take a break in ... the Waiarapa and climb up to the Rimutaka Trig and see the Wairarapa instead. Choose ... windy. [edit] Do Tunnel Gully and the Rimutaka Incline walkways. Walk or mountain bike ...
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Hutt Valley (Wikitravel)
... Wairarapa, State Highway 2 travels over the Rimutaka Hill to Upper Hutt. State Highway 2 ... before Hutt Valley the entrance to the Rimutaka Tunnel, through to Masterton in the Wairarapa ... forest walks. At the top of the Rimutaka Hill you can take a break in ... the Waiarapa and climb up to the Rimutaka Trig and see the Wairarapa instead. Choose ... be very windy. Tunnel Gully and the Rimutaka Incline walkways. Walk or mountain bike ...
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Fell mountain railway system
... The Fell mountain railway system or Fell incline railway system is a type of Mountain ... to self-propelled railcars. History The Fell incline railway system was designed, developed and patented ... and High Peak Railway's cable hauled incline at Whaley Bridge in 1863 and 1864 ... continued in operation until the 1960s. The Rimutaka Incline at Upper Hutt in New Zealand ...
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E class (Mallet locomotive)
... was used at one point on the Rimutaka Incline. It was one of the few engines ... the H class to operate on the Incline. The locomotive did not survive to be ... 66 from Derek Brown History of the Rimutaka Incline that mentions the use of E 66
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