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2. Remutaka Tunnel - Wikipedia

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   The tunnel, which was opened to traffic on 3 November 1955, is 8.93 kilometres (5.55 mi) long. It was the longest tunnel in New Zealand, superseding the Otira Tunnel in the South Island until the completion of the Kaimai Tunnel 9.03 kilometres (5.61 mi) near Tauranga in 1978. Remutaka remains the longest tunnel in New Zealand with scheduled ...

3. List of tunnels in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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   Kaimai – 8879 m – opened 12 September 1978 – near Apata on the East Coast Main Trunk railway line to Tauranga, the longest rail tunnel in New Zealand. Rimutaka – 8798 m – opened 3 November 1955 – between Upper Hutt (Wellington) and Featherston , replaced the Rimutaka Incline, a Fell mountain railway, the longest tunnel in New ...

4. Cross Creek railway station - Wikipedia

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   Cross Creek railway station was the base of operations for the Rimutaka Incline, a Fell railway over the Rimutaka Ranges, and part of the original Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt and Featherston in the Wellington region of New Zealand's North Island. The station was between Pigeon Bush and Summit stations on the Wairarapa Line.

5. Summit railway station, Wellington Region - Wikipedia

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   Once the yard had taken shape, work started on the tunnel, which was originally known as Rimutaka Tunnel. It was to be approached through a cutting six chains long and up to 60 feet deep. The line started out at a gradient of 1 in 1,000 on entering the tunnel for 12 chains, 1 in 300 for 11 chains, then got progressively steeper at 1 in 92, 44 ...

6. Wairarapa Connection - Wikipedia

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   The Rimutaka Tunnel is a radio dead-spot, and the train driver and guard found the Train Control telephones on the tunnel wall to be dead. Shortly afterwards, the tunnel alarm sounded at Upper Hutt signal box indicating the train had been in the tunnel for more than 15 minutes, and a full-scale emergency response was activated. The train was ...

7. Railway electrification in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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   Railway electrification in New Zealand consists of three separate electric systems, all on the North Island. Electrification was initially adopted by the New Zealand Railways for long tunnels; the Otira Tunnel , the Lyttelton Rail Tunnel and the two Tawa Tunnels of the Tawa Flat Deviation .

8. ‘Unprecedented’ 8 dead bodies wash up in Jamaica Bay area in ...

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   Jamaica Bay is quietly earning a reputation as the Big Apple’s version of the Bermuda Triangle -- with at least eight dead bodies discovered in and around the area over the past year, some under ...

9. Mangaroa railway station - Wikipedia

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   Prior to the construction of the Rimutaka Tunnel, several proposals for a tunnel under the Rimutaka Ranges to bypass the Incline section involved tunnels with a western portal to the north-east of Mangaroa station. In 1898 a survey was completed for a 5-mile (8.0 km) tunnel between Mangaroa and Cross Creek. The idea received a great deal of ...