The Gisborne railway station in Gisborne,

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was the main railway station in Gisborne; and the northern terminus of the

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from 1942 when the line was opened, until 2012 when the line was mothballed beyond Napier. The line has been restored to

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but remains mothballed to Gisborne. The station was closed to passengers from August 2002, although it had not been served by regular passenger trains since 1988 when services from Wellington, the unnamed successor to the Endeavour, were truncated at Napier. The building has a Category II listing with the

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. The station was opened in 1902 as the main terminus of the line north to Ormond and Kaitaratahi, which later became the

Moutohora Branch The Moutohora Branch was a branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network in Poverty Bay in the North Island of New Zealand. The branch ran for 78 km approximately North-West from Gisborne into the rugged a ...

. The section from Gisborne to Ormond opened on 26 June 1902 and to Kaitaratahi in November that same year. From 1915 to 1931 the

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left the Moutohora Branch near Makaraka, but the Ngatapa Branch was closed when the coastal route to

and

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was adopted instead of the inland route via Ngatapa.

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