Ongarue railway station was a station on the

North Island Main Trunk The North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) is the main railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, connecting the capital city Wellington with the country's largest city, Auckland. The line is long, built to the New Zealand rail gauge of and ser ...

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, serving the sawmill town of

Ongarue Ongarue ( mi, Ōngarue) is a rural community in the Ruapehu District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located south of Te Kuiti and Waimiha, and north of Taumarunui. It is in meshblock 1041902, which had a popul ...

. In 1900 the station was known as Kawakawa and then Ongaruhe. From 1922 to 1958 most of the timber freight at the station came from the connected Ellis and Burnand Tramway. It was the scene of the Ongarue railway disaster in 1923, up to then, the worst rail crash in the country. In 1941 the station employed a stationmaster and two clerks. Ongarue_1902

Patronage

Passenger_numbers_at_Ongarue_railway_station,_based_on_Statements_of_Revenue_and_Expenditure_of_each_Station_for_the_Years_ending_31st_March

Passenger numbers peaked in 1944, as shown in the graph and table below -

References

{{reflist Ruapehu District Defunct railway stations in New Zealand Buildings and structures in Manawatū-Whanganui Rail transport in Manawatū-Whanganui Railway stations opened in 1901 Railway stations closed in 1975