Taringamotu Tramway

Taringamotu Tramway
The Taringamotu Express at Oruaiwi, 1922 Barclay steam locomotive for the Taringa-
mutu (sic) Totara Sawmill Company, 1910
Technical
Track gauge3+1⁄2 feet (1,067 mm)
Route map

 Connection to NZR NIMT at Waituhi
 North Island Main Trunk
 Taringamutu Totara Sawmill Company
 Trestle bridge over Taringamotu River
 Junction into the bush
 Frank Ward’s double-deck viaduct
 Trestle viaduct crossing a gully
 Tunnel built in 1922
 Junction into the bush
 Tracks in the bush

Taringamotu Tramway, nicknamed Taringamotu Express, was a bush tramway near Oruaiwi, also known as Waituhi, a settlement in the valley of Taringamotu in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It operated from 1910 to the mid 1960s.

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