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	Fell Incline section, Rimutaka Incline Railway
		Although a suitable alignment could be found on the western side of the range, on the eastern side surveys were less successful, the only practical route was that with graded steeper than that used with conventional railways.
		An average grade of 1 in 15 was used to descend a three-mile section of track between Summit and Cross Creek on the Wairarapa side of the range.
		Near the end of its days the Rimutaka Incline bore witness to the passage of a Royal Train carrying HM Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.
	www.rimutaka-incline-railway.org.nz /route/incline-section.html (833 words)

	Upper Hutt
		The line was continued over the Rimutaka ranges to Featherston in the Wairarapa, opening on October 12, 1878.
		To assist with the 1 in 15 grade on the Featherston side of the range, the Rimutaka Incline[?] employed Fell Engines[?] that used a raised friction traction centre rail to haul trains up the steep grade.
		In conjunction with the Tunnel, the laying of a new route, new bridges, and substantial realignments and double tracking of the rest of the line from Wellington as far as Trentham station had occurred by June 26, 1955.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/up/Upper_Hutt.html (592 words)

	Rimutaka Range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rimutaka Range (often referred to as the Rimutaka Ranges) is one of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand which form a ridge running parallel with the east coast of the island between East Cape and Wellington.
		The Rimutakas run southwest-northeast for 55 kilometres from Turakirae Head at the eastern end of Palliser Bay to the upper reaches of the Hutt Valley where it joins the southern end of the Tararua Range.
		The highest peak in the Rimutakas is Mount Matthews, at 940 metres.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rimutaka_Range (180 words)

	Upper Hutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The line was continued over the Rimutaka ranges to Featherston in the Wairarapa, opening on October 12, 1878.
		In conjunction with the Tunnel, the laying of a new route, new bridges, and substantial realignments and double tracking of the rest of the line from Wellington as far as Trentham station had occurred by June 26, 1955.
		The northern areas of Hutt County's Rimutaka Riding were included in the City on April 1, 1973.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/u/up/upper_hutt.html (605 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Rimutaka Range
		The ridge is at its most pronounced in the southern part of the island, where it consists of the Ruahine, Tararua, and Rimutaka Ranges.
		The Rimutakas run southwest-northeast for 55 kilometres from Turakirae Head at the eastern end of Palliser Bay to the upper reaches of the Hutt Valley where it joins the southern end of the end of the Tararua Range.
		The highest peak in the Rimutakas is Mount Mathews, at 940 metres.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Rimutaka_Ranges (281 words)

	Tararua Range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tararua Range (often referred to as the Tararua Ranges) is one of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand which form a ridge running parallel with the east coast of the island between East Cape and Wellington.
		It is separated in the north from the southern end of the Ruahine Range by the Manawatu Gorge.
		The only all-weather road right across the range is the "Pahiatua Track", which joins Palmerston North and Pahiatua and is much used when the Manawatu Gorge road is closed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tararua_Range (236 words)

	air2there.com Destination Information
		The Wairarapa stretches east from the Tararua Ranges to the Pacific Ocean.
		The Rimutaka Mountain Range borders it from Wellington to the south.
		Featherston, at the foot of the Rimutaka Range, is the last town before climbing the winding mountain road to Wellington.
	www.air2there.com /Destinations.aspx (1974 words)

	New Zealand Travel
		In the upper reaches of the city, the twin ranges of the Western and Eastern Hutt Hilsl become closer, culminating in the narrowing known as Taita Gorge at the northern end of Lower Hutt.
		The Upper Hutt city extends to the top of the Rimutaka saddle to the northeast and into the rough hill country of the Akatarawa ranges to the north and northwest, almost reaching the Kapiti Coast close to the town of Paekakariki.
		There are three largely rural districts east of the Rimutaka Range, containing most of the area commonly spoken of as "the Wairarapa", with the chief town being Masterton.
	www.newzealandtravel.org /?page=nztravel/locations&Code=niwn (1275 words)

	The Fell Engine and the Rimutaka Incline
		The Rimutaka Range presented a great challenge to the engineers looking to construct a railway to Wairarapa from the capital city.
		In 1936 a railcar service was introduced over the Rimutaka Incline, taking some of the pressure off the old Fell engines, which were proving to be expensive to maintain and to run.
		As soon as the tunnel was opened work began on dismantling the old track, and 199, the first of the Fells, started to assist in the demolition of the line she had helped build nearly eighty years before.
	library.mstn.govt.nz /history/fell.html (1504 words)

	t21b in fm06
		The LSBM, forming a dramatic escarpment between the eastern Transverse Ranges (ETR) and the Salton Trough, contain an array of N- to NW-trending faults that occupy the zone of intersections between the SAF and the coevolving E-trending left-slip faults of the ETR.
		Uplift with respect to sea level on the middle and eastern strands of the WH fault zone totals ~1mm/yr over the last 125 ka, and is indistinguishable in rate from that measured along the main (strike- slip) part of the Wairarapa fault to the north.
		To the west of the WH fault, the crest of the Rimutaka anticline at the coast is uplifting at 3 times this rate, (McSaveny et al., in press).
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=fm06&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/fm06/fm06&maxhits=200&="T21B" (10320 words)

	The Fell Engine and the Rimutaka Incline
		The line from Featherston to the summit of the range was the most difficult part of the new track.
		In 1936 a railcar service was introduced over the Rimutaka Incline, taking some of the pressure off the old Fell engines, which were proving to be expensive to maintain and to run.
		The travelling public, although longing for the new faster and more direct route, were also sentimental about the Fell Engines that had been carrying them across the Rimutaka Range for 77 years, and a large number of special excursion trains carried passengers for a last nostalgic trip over the line.
	www.library.mstn.govt.nz /history/fell.html (1504 words)

	Wellington Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It extends up the west coast of the North Island, taking in the coastal settlements of the Kapiti Coast district, which includes the southern fringe of the area commonly known as the Horowhenua, and included three largely rural districts east of the Rimutaka Range, containing most of the area known as the Wairarapa.
		Inland from this is rough hill country, formed along the same major geologic fault responsible for the Southern Alps in the South Island.
		Though nowhere near as mountainous as these, the Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges are still hard country and support only small populations, although it is in small coastal valleys and plains at the southern end of these ranges that the cities of Wellington and the Hutt Valley are located.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wellington_Region (736 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: South Wairarapa (district), New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The district includes towns such as Featherston, Martinborough (a well-known wine-producing area, with central streets forming a Union Jack pattern), and Greytown (where Arbor Day was first celebrated in New Zealand).
		The topography of the district includes the floodplain of the Ruamahanga River and the associated Lake Wairarapa, as well as the long southern stretch of Palliser Bay and the eastern slopes of the Rimutaka Range, the crest of which forms the western boundary of the district.
		The district is part of the Wellington region, although historically the Wairarapa as a whole has often been regarded as a separate region, and the people of South Wairarapa have more ties with other centres to the north of the district than they do with the capital itself.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/South-Wairarapa-(district),-New-Zealand (417 words)

	Fish and Game New Zealand
		A challenging small river rising in the limestone country of the Puketoi Ranges, the Makuri is the closest to a chalk stream we have in this region.
		Into the ranges access, off the end of Table Flat Road, is reasonable, and, for the moderately fit angler, the fishing is very enjoyable in scenic and peaceful surroundings although trout numbers are generally low.
		Flowing from the southern Tararua Range the Akatarawa is a tributary of the Hutt River, joining at Birchville.
	fishandgame.org.nz /SITE_Default/SITE_your_region/SITE_Wellington/Fishing/access.asp (5350 words)

	Wellington - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Greater Wellington or the Wellington Region means the entire urban area, plus the rural parts of the cities and the Kapiti Coast, and across the Rimutaka Range to the Wairarapa.
		Wellington stands at the south-western tip of the North Island on Cook Strait, the passage that separates the North and South Islands.
		On the east the Rimutaka Range divides Wellington from the broad plains of the Wairarapa, a wine region of worldwide acclaim.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/w/e/l/Wellington.html (1578 words)

	NORTH ISLAND MAIN RANGE - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		South of the Napier-Taupo highway the lower Ahimanawa Range (4,225 ft) and higher Kaweka Range (5,637 ft) are separated by the Ngamatea depression from the Kaimanawa Mountains, fronting the central volcanic plateau.
		The North Island main range is composed mainly of the hard-folded sedimentary rocks of late Paleozoic to Mesozoic age, commonly known to geologists as “greywacke and argillite”.
		The western outliers of the range in the north are deeply covered with pumice ash and volcanic rocks emanating from the central volcanic region.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/N/NorthIslandMainRange/NorthIslandMainRange/en (510 words)

	GEOLOGY – LAND DISTRICTS OF NEW ZEALAND - Wellington Land District - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		The Wellington Fault continues through the Tararua Range, where its course is marked by scarps, saddles, and valleys, and it forms the eastern boundary of the range from the Mangatainoka River north to the Manawatu Gorge and beyond.
		During the Pleistocene glacial episodes, much of the Wellington Land District, especially the ranges and the Wellington Peninsula, was subjected to a frost climate with freeze and thaw as active erosion agents.
		With the gradual uplift of the ranges throughout the Pleistocene, and the permanent exclusion of the sea, the Manawatu River was forced to cut a deep gorge across the rising country in order to maintain its course.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/G/GeologyLandDistrictsOfNewZealand/WellingtonLandDistrict/en (1750 words)

	Wellington - Towns, Villages and Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In strict local government terms, Greater Wellington or the Wellington Region means the entire urban area, plus the rural parts of the cities and the Kapiti Coast, and across the Rimutaka Range to the Wairarapa.
		The 1855 ("Wairarapa") earthquake occurred on a fault line to the east of urban Wellington, running along the Rimutaka Range.
		On the east the Rimutaka Range divides Wellington from the broad plains of the Wairarapa, a wine region of worldwide acclaim.
	cities.wikia.com /wiki/Wellington (1674 words)

	Tararua Range at AllExperts
		The ridge is at its most pronounced in the southern part of the island, where it comprises the Rimutaka, Ruahine, and Tararua Ranges.
		The Tararuas run northeast-southwest for 80 kilometres from near Palmerston North to the upper reaches of the Hutt Valley, where the northern tip of the Rimutaka Range begins.
		Serving as a tramping location for Wellington, amongst the possible trips is the famous "Southern Crossing" running from Otaki Forks in the west, over Mt Hector and exiting via Kaitoke.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/ta/tararua_range.htm (270 words)

	January 11-20
		After 8 km, a low range of hills came along the west side.
		I passed the Rimutaka Incline, a well known hiking track (and I believe former railway).
		There is an overload of stimulus: sounds of everything honking/tooting, lots of motion and sights, an amazing variety of vehicles, loose interpretations of "safe to pass" and hazards ranging from oxen to potholes.
	www.mvermeulen.com /oneyear/Journal/january11.htm (3291 words)

	Featherston County, A History
		This was a major feat because of the steep Rimutaka Ranges which had to be crossed.
		The famous fell engines, using horizontal wheels gripping a raised centre rail, were needed on the Wairarapa side of the range, and a small village was constructed at Cross Creek to service the railway.
		To the south, the bush-clad Rimutaka Range stands in a stern but protective line, hiding steep gullies and valleys, the delight of trampers.
	www.featherstoncounty.com /history.htm (2173 words)

	Rimutaka incline railway < Special places < info < Peter Marquis-Kyle
		The steep Rimutaka Range was a barrier in the way of the railway line from Wellington to Napier.
		This ‘temporary’ system remained in use for 77 years, until a long tunnel was driven under the range.
		The use of "northbound" here could be confusing, since Napier is north of Wellington but the Wellington end of the Rimutaka Incline is north of the Napier end, so a train described as northbound could be heading in either direction.
	www.marquis-kyle.com.au /sp/000574.htm (504 words)

	Wharekauhau Country Estate - New Zealand's most exclusive lodge: Investment
		he “tourist village” is restricted to a limited range of high quality resident guest facilities within the farm landscape and proximate to the Lodge.
		The intrinsic qualities of the farming operations, and of the coastal landscape, are protected both to maintain the attraction of the area to visitors, and to preserve and enhance the existing coastal environment and natural ecosystems.
		The property runs between the Rimutaka Mountains in the west and the wild seclusion of Palliser Bay on its eastern boundary.
	wharekauhau.co.nz /investment (647 words)

	Club Range (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Branch shooting competitions are held monthly on our range and the shoots are designed to assist hunters in marksmanship skills.
		The branch has a rifle range with covered benchrest facilities in the Rimutaka Incline recreation area.
		Members are entitled to lease a key to the main car park gate, which enables driving to the range.
	www.hvnzda.org.nz /club_range.htm (203 words)

	WHAREKAUHAU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The property runs between the Rimutaka Mountains in the west and the wild seclusion of Palliser Bay on its eastern boundary.
		The site boundaries of Wharekauhau are natural ones-the coastal cliff escarpment above Ocean Beach to the south, the steep forested slopes of Rimutaka Forest Park to the north, Wharepapa River to the east and Wharekauhau Stream and hill country to the west.
		South Wairarapa is close to Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, but is separated by steep mountains, the Rimutaka Range.
	www.wharekauhau.com /location.htm (337 words)

	Fell locomotive < House swapping < Autobio < Peter Marquis-Kyle
		H199 was built by the Avonside Engine Co of Bristol in 1875, dismantled, shipped to Wellington, reassembled, and put to work on the Rimutaka incline.
		When a railway tunnel under the Rimutaka Range superceded the incline, the Fell locos where all cut up for scrap, except this one which was presented to the people of Fetherston, as a memorial to the men and women who for 77 years had provided the services over the ranges.
		From 1958 the loco sat in a park, beset by the weather and the vandals.
	www.marquis-kyle.com.au /nz/000569.htm (204 words)

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