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Karioi railway station

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was built by March 1908 with a budget of £7,672, though that may have included Ohakune. When opened Karioi had rooms for a stationmaster, luggage, urinals and ladies, on a 240 ft (73 m) by 15 ft (4.6 m) platform. There was also a 40 ft (12 m) by 30 ft (9.1 m)
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and were quoted as saying, "After spending £7000 on a tramway, and purchasing a locomotive (unable to shift any timber because of the grade being one in nine), one million and a half feet of timber accumulated, and your Rail Tractor saved the situation." The line was worked by an
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The name was changed to Ninnia, or Ninia in 1907, but reverted to Karioi in 1910, though Ninia was still on the 1926 map. Ninia was also later used, further north on the NIMT, at
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goods shed with verandah, a loading bank, cattle and sheep yards, two 4,000 imp gal (18,000 L) water tanks and a cart approach. There was a
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began in 1894. Bush felling for the railway started in 1900. The rails were extended to the station in March, or April 1907 and the line opened from
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An agreement to log 3,700 acres (1,500 ha) was made in 1906. Mangawhero Sawmilling Co's logging
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LIGHT RAILWAYS OCTOBER, 1980 Nattrass Patented eight or twelve-wheel drive Rail Tractor
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lakes. A half hour walk from the station leads to the lake. It remains surrounded by
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ran east from the station between about 1922 and 1929. About 1926 the mill bought 3
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To the north of the station, Lake Rotokura and Dry Lake are
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Container train entering Karioi crossing loop from the south
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A road to the station was built in 1907 for £1,078.10s. A
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Lake Rotokura

39°26′51″S 175°30′45″E / 39.447576°S 175.512587°E / -39.447576; 175.512587
North Island Main Trunk
Wellington
Rangataua
North Island Main Trunk
KiwiRail
Tangiwai

North Island Main Trunk
Ruapehu District
passing loop
Waione Siding
Hīhītahi
Piriaka
Waiouru
3rd class station
tablet
fixed signals
tramway
Nattrass Tractors
NZR P class (1876)
Sanson Tramway

maar crater
beech
tūī
kākā
korimako

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