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Kapiti Line
Metlink's Kapiti Line is the Railway electrification system, electrified southern portion of the North Island Main Trunk railway between New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, and Waikanae on the Kāpiti Coast, operated by Transdev Wellington on behalf of Greater Wellington Regional Council. Trains run frequently every day, with stops at 16 stations. Until 20 February 2011 it was known as the Paraparaumu Line. Construction The Kapiti Line was constructed by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (W&MR) as part of its line between Wellington and Longburn, south of Palmerston North. It was built by a group of Wellington businessmen frustrated with the indecision of the government about the construction of a west coast route out of Wellington. Construction of the line began in September 1882 and followed a circuitous, steep route via Johnsonville, New Zealand, Johnsonville. It was opened to Plimmerton in October 1885 and completed on 3 November 1886. The final spike was dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wellington Railway Station
Wellington railway station, Wellington Central station, or simply Wellington station, is the main railway station serving Wellington, New Zealand, and is the southern terminus of the North Island Main Trunk, Wairarapa Line and Johnsonville Branch, Johnsonville Line. The station opened in June 1937, replacing the two previous Wellington termini, Lambton railway station, Lambton and Thorndon railway station, Thorndon. The building was originally the head office of the New Zealand Railways Department or NZR. Today, the building houses the Wellington office of KiwiRail in the east wing of the building. Victoria University of Wellington occupies the west wing. A number of alterations have been made to the railway station over the years. The building was registered on 25 September 1986 as a List of historic places in Wellington, Category 1 Historic Place by Heritage New Zealand. History Development The capital's first Wellington railway station was a group of small buildings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Longburn
Longburn (or Karere) is a rural settlement just outside Palmerston North in the Manawatū-Whanganui area of New Zealand. Made up of large dairy processing plants Longburn is often mistaken to be a small township and not seen as a large satellite town of Palmerston North. The township is home to both Longburn School and Longburn Adventist College. The population was 348 in the 2018 census. History Some of the region's earliest settlers settled in the Longburn area, including former Prime Minister of Denmark Ditlev Monrad, Bishop Ditlev Monrad and his family. Dairy A butter factory was opened in 1884, butter and cheese were exported in kegs to Britain. An entirely new plant was opened at Longburn in 1966. Today Fonterra's Longburn milk processing plant in conjunction with its sister plant in Pahiatua collects milk daily from Lake Tutira in northern Hawke's Bay down to Whitemans Valley near Wellington. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Johnsonville Line
The Johnsonville Branch, also known as the Johnsonville Line, is a commuter branch line railway from the main Wellington railway station, Railway Station of Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand to the northern suburb of Johnsonville, New Zealand, Johnsonville via Ngaio, New Zealand, Ngaio and Khandallah. Transdev Wellington operates the trains under contract from the Public transport in Wellington#Administration, Greater Wellington Regional Council. In 2001, an estimated 1,043 Commuting, passengers used the line on a working day. The line has seven tunnels and eight stations. Four stations (Crofton Downs Railway Station, Crofton Downs, Awarua Street Railway Station, Awarua Street, Box Hill railway station, Wellington, Box Hill, and Raroa Railway Station, Raroa) are on a curve. There are three crossing loops: at Ngaio and Khandallah stations and below Wadestown, New Zealand, Wadestown in the Ngaio Gorge. History The line was built in the 1880s as part of the Wellington� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tawa Flat Deviation
The Railway Magazine February 1934 pp. 100-105 Tawa Flat deviation is a double-track section of the Kapiti Line just north of Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ..., New Zealand, with two tunnels; the southernmost section of the North Island Main Trunk railway (NIMT) between Wellington and Auckland. It was built to bypass a limited capacity single track section of the original Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, Wellington and Manawatu Railway (WMR) Johnsonville Line, line which ascended from Wellington to Johnsonville, New Zealand, Johnsonville and then descended to Tawa, New Zealand, Tawa Flat. The original name of Tawa Flat was changed to Tawa in 1959. When opened to passenger trains in June 1937, the deviation reduced the travel time from Wellingt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Diesel Locomotive
A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover (locomotive), power source is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed, differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is conveyed to the driving wheels. The most common are diesel–electric locomotives and diesel–hydraulic. Early internal combustion engine, internal combustion locomotives and railcars used kerosene and gasoline as their fuel. Rudolf Diesel patented his first compression-ignition engine in 1898, and steady improvements to the design of diesel engines reduced their physical size and improved their power-to-weight ratios to a point where one could be mounted in a locomotive. Internal combustion engines only operate efficiently within a limited power band, and while low-power gasoline engines could be coupled to mechanical transmission (mechanics), transmissions, the more powerful diesel engines required the development of new forms of transmiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Steam Locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, Fuel oil, oil or, rarely, Wood fuel, wood) to heat water in the locomotive's Boiler (power generation), boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1,700 times. Functionally, it is a steam engine on wheels. In most locomotives, the steam is admitted alternately to each end of its Steam locomotive components, cylinders in which pistons are mechanically connected to the locomotive's main wheels. Fuel and water supplies are usually carried with the locomotive, either on the locomotive itself or in a Tender (rail), tender coupled to it. #Variations, Variations in this general design include electrically powered boilers, turbines in place of pistons, and using steam generated externally. Steam locomotives were first developed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pukerua Bay
Pukerua Bay is a small seaside suburb at the southern end of the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand. In local government terms it is the northernmost suburb of Porirua City, in the Wellington Region. It is 12 km north of the Porirua City Centre on State Highway 59 (New Zealand), State Highway 59, and 30 km north of central Wellington. In Māori language, Māori, the words ''puke rua'' literally mean ''two hills'' but it is not clear to which hills the name refers. Geography The majority of Pukerua Bay is situated in a saddle between hills, about 60-90m above sea level, offering sea views (and views of Kapiti Island and occasionally Mounts Mount Taranaki, Taranaki and Mount Ruapehu, Ruapehu to the north) from many houses. The Kaikoura range on the South Island including Mt Tapuae-o-Uenuku can be seen from some places at the southern end of the township. The coast around Pukerua Bay is fairly steep, with only a few houses nestled in a row behind the two sandy beach areas. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Johnsonville Branch
The Johnsonville Branch, also known as the Johnsonville Line, is a commuter branch line railway from the main Railway Station of Wellington, New Zealand to the northern suburb of Johnsonville via Ngaio and Khandallah. Transdev Wellington operates the trains under contract from the Greater Wellington Regional Council. In 2001, an estimated 1,043 passengers used the line on a working day. The line has seven tunnels and eight stations. Four stations ( Crofton Downs, Awarua Street, Box Hill, and Raroa) are on a curve. There are three crossing loops: at Ngaio and Khandallah stations and below Wadestown in the Ngaio Gorge. History The line was built in the 1880s as part of the Wellington-Manawatu railway line constructed by the private Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company line, to connect Wellington to Longburn near Palmerston North where it linked with the New Zealand Railways network. Construction started in 1879, and the first section, to Paremata, opened on 24 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tawa, New Zealand
Tawa is the northernmost suburb within the Wellington city boundary, located roughly 15 km north of Wellington's CBD between Churton Park and Porirua in the North Island of New Zealand. It takes its name from the Tawa (tree), broadleaf tree, which was once prolific throughout the area, although its famous trees, most famous tree is the Bucket Tree, a large macrocarpa with the topiary of an upside-down bucket. Tawa is also known for its large number of churches, representing a wide range of Christian denominations. Within Tawa, there are a number of named areas: Lindenvale, Westhaven, Redwood, Wellington, Redwood and Southgate to the west and Linden, New Zealand, Linden, Greenacres and Sundale to the east of the central Tawa area. Geography and transportation Tawa lies in a wide section of a roughly north/south valley which opens up on the north into the Porirua Basin. The valley is about 4.5 km in length (north-south) and 2.5 km wide (east-west). The Belmont ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kaiwharawhara
Kaiwharawhara is an urban seaside suburb of Wellington in New Zealand's North Island. It is located north of the centre of the city on the western shore of Wellington Harbour, where the Kaiwharawhara Stream reaches the sea from its headwaters in Karori. It is a largely commercial and industrial area and thus has little residential population. A recent housing development up the hillside towards Te Kainga has increased the resident population. Kaiwharawhara contains some major transport infrastructure. Both State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk railway pass through Kaiwharawhara on their routes from central Wellington northwards. Due to its waterfront location, Kaiwharawhara also has shipping activity, with the Wellington Interislander ferry terminal located on the boundary of Kaiwharawhara and Pipitea. Kaiwharawhara railway station was closed in 2013, and the suburb is now served by buses. Just north of the station the Wairarapa Line (including the commuter Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Otaihanga
Otaihanga is on the Kāpiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is just north of Paraparaumu on the south bank of the Waikanae River and is roughly 55 km north of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington. Its name is Māori for "the place made by the tide".Kāpiti Coast District Council"Tourism", accessed 28 November 2007. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of Taihanga personal name for ''Ōtaihanga''. Demographics Otaihanga statistical area covers . It had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Before the 2023 census, Otaihanga had a larger boundary, covering . Using that boundary, Otaihanga had a population of 804 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 69 people (9.4%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 54 people (7.2%) since the 2006 census. There were 306 households, comprising 393 males and 411 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.96 males per female. The median ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
