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Ōwhango
Ōwhango is a small town in New Zealand situated about south of Taumarunui on New Zealand State Highway 4, State Highway 4 (SH4), and about west of the Whakapapa River, a tributary of the nascent Whanganui River. Ōwhango has been the New Zealand place names#Post-colonial recognition, official name since 16 July 2020. It is a Māori people, Māori name that translates as "the place of wheezy noises". The village features a backdrop of native forest and Mount Ruapehu, with native birds like tūī and kererū. The domain, set amongst native forest, includes large open playing fields, children's play area and two tennis courts. The North Island Main Trunk, Main Trunk Line passes through Ōwhango on the western side of New Zealand State Highway 4, State Highway 4, with two crossing points for vehicles, one controlled (Owhango Road, centrally located) and the other uncontrolled (Onematua Road, on the northern boundary). From 1905 to 1985 Ōwhango had a Ōwhango railway station, ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōwhango Railway Station
Ōwhango was a station on the North Island Main Trunk line, in the Ruapehu District of New Zealand. It served the village of Ōwhango, which lay to the north of the station. It was north of Oio and south of Kakahi. The Public Works Department transferred the station to NZ Railways on 9 November 1908, though bush had been felled along the railway route in 1904, by March 1905 a station yard was being formed and by August 1905 it was the railhead, with track laid beyond to the south. By 20 March 1908 there was a x passenger platform, a x shelter shed, with lobby and store, a tablet office, a loading bank, cattle yards and pens, a x goods shed with verandah, privies, urinals and 4 water tanks of each, with water supplied by a hydraulic ram. A 6th class station, cart approach to the platform and fixed signals were added by 10 November 1908 and a sheep yard in 1909. In 1912 the platform was enlarged. In 1964 the timber platform front was renewed, but on 30 January 1965 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whakapapa River
The Whakapapa River in New Zealand forms from streams which trickle off the Whakapapa skifield of Mount Ruapehu and down the western slopes of the mountain. The river passes near Ōwhango, before finally merging with the Whanganui River just east of Kakahi, New Zealand, Kakahi, about from where it starts, which is in a deep gorge, at the confluence of the Whakapapaiti and Whakapapanui Streams. Before construction of the North Island Main Trunk, North Island Main Trunk Railway began in about 1904, most of the valley was a dense Podocarpaceae, podocarp forest. In 1914 logging of the last sizeable west bank section of that bush began, near Oio railway station, Oio. Peter McIntyre (artist), Peter McIntyre had a home near Kakahi, New Zealand, Kakahi overlooking the confluence of the Whanganui and Whakapapa rivers, and painted several oil landscapes of the Whakapapa River. After his death, the Whakapapa River undermined the white pumice cliffs where his house was built and claimed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
