Amokura railway station | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | New Zealand | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°18′32″S 175°04′34″E / 37.309°S 175.076°E | ||||||||||
Elevation | 7 m (23 ft) | ||||||||||
Line(s) | North Island Main Trunk | ||||||||||
Distance | Wellington 604.43 km (375.58 mi) | ||||||||||
Tracks | double to north single to south | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1929 | ||||||||||
Closed | 1980 | ||||||||||
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Amokura railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk in the Waikato region of New Zealand, 604.62 km (375.69 mi) from Wellington. It is at the north end of a 13 km (8.1 mi) single line section extending to Te Kauwhata. [1] Doubling of that section is being investigated in a business case from July 2021. [2]
Sources differ as to the opening date. One says opening was on 20 October 1929 for goods and 11 November 1929 for passengers. [3] Another says 13 August 1877 and that the line was doubled from 1 July 1956. [4] A siding [5] was gazetted with the name Amokura in January 1929 [6] and a 1930 article implied it was new. [7] It was also known c.1929 as Ngatikoi or Raumoa. A crossing loop was closed on 13 May 1963. at that time there was a proposal to combine it with Meremere station, [3] as they were only a chain (22 yd (20 m)) apart and Meremere was larger and better known. [8]
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