This week’s progress has got us started on the Rimutaka Incline Section going through as far as Mangaroa Tunnel. We’re now working on the next section through to Kaitoke, and from there to Summit, Cross Creek, Pigeon Bush and eventually Featherston. Originally our timetable for this week called for us to be through to Masterton…

So here is our first article specifically about the Wairarapa Line main line route. There is a lot to this route, and articles that we write about it will not follow a sequence corresponding to the geographical sequence of the line itself. This is because this corridor has had so many different parts to it…

So here we are with the second part of a two part series on the Upper Hutt to Mangaroa Tunnel segment of the “Rimutaka Incline Section”. In this part we look at the part of this route from the Mangaroa station to Tunnel 2 (the Mangaroa Tunnel). We will follow this with the first article…

So here is the first in a series of 5 articles looking at the “Rimutaka Incline Section”, which is an NZ Rail Maps name for the route from Upper Hutt to Featherston via the Rimutaka Incline. In this first pair of articles we are looking at the part from Upper Hutt to the Mangaroa Tunnel,…

In the midst of NZ going to level 4 of COVID-19 lockdown we have continued with our progress on Volume 6 and the past few days has been spent on the “Rimutaka Incline Section” (unofficial name) from Upper Hutt as far as the second tunnel (shown as T2 on the maps and generally known as…