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	Rimutaka Incline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rimutaka Incline was a 3-mile (5-km) stretch of steeply-graded railway line between Summit and Cross Creek on the original Wairarapa railway line between Wellington and Masterton in New Zealand.
		Construction on the new Rimutaka railway tunnel and deviation to replace the incline began in the late 1940s.
		In 2003 the Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust was formed with the objective of reinstating a heritage railway on the abandoned formation and its access routes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rimutaka_Incline (442 words)

	Tunnels in New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This list of Tunnels in New Zealand is a link page for any railway tunnel, road tunnel or waterway tunnel, including any hydroelectric intake or tailrace or gun battery tunnel anywhere in the New Zealand.
		Rimutaka - 8798 m - opened October 29(?) 1955 - between Upper Hutt (Wellington) and Featherston (Wairarapa), replaced the Rimutaka Incline, a Fell mountain railway.
		There are short tunnels on SH3 between New Plymouth and Te Kuiti - one at the summit of Mt Messenger and one in the Awakino gorge.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/t/tu/tunnels_in_new_zealand.html (445 words)

	Upper Hutt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The city is 30 km north-east of Wellington, and is centred on the upper (northern) valley of the Hutt River, which flows north-east to south-west on its way to Wellington harbour.
		Upper Hutt extends to the top of the Rimutaka saddle to the north-east and into the rough hill-country of the Akatarawa ranges to the north and north-west, almost reaching the Kapiti Coast close to Paekakariki.
		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 26 June 1955.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Upper_Hutt (997 words)

	New Zealand Railway Tunnels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The longest railway tunnel in New Zealand, and indeed the longest in the southern hemisphere, is the 8879 m long Kaimai tunnel at Apata on the East Coast Main Trunk Line.
		The second longest railway tunnel in New Zealand is the 8798 m long Rimutaka tunnel between Wellington and the Wairarapa.
		The third longest railway tunnel in New Zealand (and the longest railway tunnel in the South Island) is the 8566 m long Otira tunnel through the Southern Alps between Arthurs Pass and Otira.
	trains.wellington.net.nz /tunnels.html (313 words)

	Railways of New Zealand: Rimutaka Railway
		The term "Rimutaka Railway" is commonly used today to refer to the old route of the Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt and Featherston.
		The "Rimutaka Railway" with its curves of up to 5 chains radius and 1 in 35 grades aside from the incline, was completely bypassed in October 1955 when the Rimutaka Deviation incorporating a 8.5 km tunnel under the hills was opened.
		Currently a new organisation, the Rimutaka Incline Railway, is developing proposals to rebuild the historic line in its entirety between Maymorn and Featherston.
	www.trainweb.org /enzedrail/mainline/rimutaka (1283 words)

	Maymorn to Kaitoke section, Rimutaka Incline Railway
		Route of the Rimutaka Incline Railway from Maymorn to Kaitoke.
		Proximity to the Rimutaka tunnel and deviation at Maymorn
		The gradient relented slightly to 1 in 53 on exiting the tunnel, curving through an 8 chain (160 metre) radius curve and heading south-east for four chains (80 metres).
	www.rimutaka-incline-railway.org.nz /route/maymorn-kaitoke.html (516 words)

	Upper Hutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		To replace it, the Rimutaka Tunnel had been constructed, finally opening in 1955.
		The road promptly ran at full capacity and, after several serious accidents, that were a legacy of its origins, it was enlarged and re-engineered to cope with the growing traffic volume.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/u/up/upper_hutt.html (605 words)

	RedOrbit - Health - The Train-Tunnel Gang
		Because many of the tunnellers and their families knew each other before they arrived, the community was like an extended family.
		Before the tunnel was built, all rail traffic had to endure a tortuously slow trip over the Rimutaka Hill, behind Fell-type steam engines that used a centre-rail to pull trains up the incline.
		The two tunnel headings met in April 1954, the concrete lining was finished in May 1954 and work was completed in January 1955.
	www.redorbit.com /news/health/290243/the_traintunnel_gang/index.html (1145 words)

	New Zealand Railways Bridges & Tunnels (revised 2004 by Garvan Laing)
		The Rimutaka, Tawa, and Turakina tunnels are located on railway deviations constructed to replace older railways which had steep gradients and sharp curves that made them unsuitable for economic operation in modern conditions.
		If the two Simplon tunnels side by side between Switzerland and Italy be regarded as one tunnel, the Rimutaka Tunnel is the twelfth longest in the world, and the Otira Tunnel is the fifteenth longest.
		The new Kaimai Tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in the Commonwealth and in the southern hemisphere.
	www.grijalvo.com /Garvan/New_Zealand_Railways_Bridges_and_Tunnels.htm (880 words)

	Cruickshanks Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		There are six tunnels on the Rimutaka Incline route between Upper Hutt and Featherston.
		Access to the tunnel is not particularly difficult but it is not signposted and requires a bush bash.
		The tunnel is large enough to walk through but a stick poked into the mud suggests that that would not be wise.
	www.trainweb.org /valleysignals/tunnels/cruickshanks.html (814 words)

	Greater Wellington - Rimutaka Rail Trail
		Running 10km from Kaitoke to Summit, the Rimutaka Rail Trail is a popular recreation route used by more than 30,000 walkers, runners and cyclists each year. It takes up to three hours to walk or an hour for a family mountain bike ride.
		Summit Tunnel - dating from 1877, this is 576m long, and was resurfaced together with the rest of the Rail Trail in 1999.
		This steeper (1 in 15 grade) section is managed by the Department of Conservation as part of the Rimutaka Forest Park.
	www.gw.govt.nz /section627.cfm (463 words)

	Trains In Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The tunnel timer was in use as early as 1997.
		The tunnel indications (right) were installed later, after a train became "lost" in the tunnel (TAIC Report 97-112).
		Track circuits in the tunnel, on either side of the summit, are indicated on the panel.
	www.trainweb.org /valleysignals/upperhutt/tunnelsafety.html (237 words)

	Newsletter #14 Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust
		Praise was also given to the Rimutaka Trust for their ongoing support of projects such as the Rimutaka Incline Railway, particularly during the critical startup period.
		An exhibition of photographs, memorabilia of the Rimutaka Incline route and the Rimutaka Deviation from October 1955 was held from 22 October – 13 November 2005 at Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre, Upper Hutt.
		Of relevance to the Rimutaka Incline Railway, the Royal Train for Queen Elizabeth II that passed over the Rimutaka Incline on 15 January 1954 was comprised of 56-foot carriages.
	www.rimutaka-incline-railway.org.nz /member-pages/newsletter-14.html (2867 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		When the tunnel was completed in 1931 he formed a syndicate with George McLean, who had supplied some of the plant.
		Tunnelling was again a key element, and the contract led to similar work at Cobb River and the Homer Tunnel.
		The construction of the Rimutaka tunnel, and of the Roxburgh hydroelectric works, built with the government and overseas concerns in the mid 1950s, were the pinnacle of Downer's professional career.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=4D16&QuickSearch=true (866 words)

	The Fell Engine and the Rimutaka Incline
		There were frequent accidents on the line, and a number of men lost their lives in the tunnels.
		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)

	Tunnels in New Zealand
		Shortest Tunnels not constructed by the cut and cover technique
		New Zealand Railway Tunnels at 31st March 1975 (http://trains.wellington.net.nz/tunnels2.html)
		Lyttelton Road Tunnel, between Lyttelton and the Heathcote valley in Christchurch
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/tu/Tunnels_in_New_Zealand.html (364 words)

	Untitled Document
		This is a painting looking out of the last tunnel at the top of the hill before the journey down the Wairarapa side.
		The track heads out of the tunnel, slightly left and crosses the top of the valley and heads down towards Cross Creek Road.
		The grey sand of the East coast of the Wairarapa and the late afternoon sun was the setting for this painting.
	www.artdirect.co.nz /Paintings-available.htm (1186 words)

	New Zealand Railway Tunnels
		Tunnels opened since 1975, such as the Kaimai Tunnel, NZ's longest, and the new Porootarao tunnel, are not listed.
		Tunnels on lines closed before 1975 are not listed either, except see the table of some closed tunnels at the end.
		Tunnels with railways for which the primary purpose is not the railway, such as water pipeline tunnels, hydro tunnels and mines, are not listed either.
	trains.wellington.net.nz /tunnels2.html (282 words)

	08/06/05 article by Rick Long.
		I recall later, in the seventies, being invited to a meeting called to form a committee to approach the government to build the tunnel with the citizens of the Wairarapa offering to pay for its construction by way of a toll.
		Despite this overwhelming evidence the debate still continues, though last week some light was seen at the end of the tunnel when Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast said the building of Transmission Gully was a "no-brainer." It is clear however that not everyone was listening.
		To their credit Wairarapa politicians never did hang their hats entirely on the construction of the Rimutaka Tunnel and were able to sensibly step back when the writing was on the wall.
	www.signfactory.co.nz /080605.html (914 words)

	History of the Rimutaka Incline railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Rimutaka Incline (the track between Cross Creek and Summit) was part of the rail route between Wellington and the Wairarapa for 77 years (1878-1955).
		The long straight between Siberia Tunnel (120m) and Summit Tunnel (576m) - one of the steepest sections of the incline with a gradient of 1 in 13.
		Refuges at intervals along the tunnel sides were used by track gangs to move out of the way of passing trains.
	www.doc.govt.nz /Community/001~For-Schools/003~Field-Trips/008~Wellington/Rimutaka-Forest-Park-environmental-education-resource/030~History-of-the-Rimutaka-Incline.asp (876 words)

	Featherston County, A History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		After the war, due to the extremely slow and labour intensive operation of the Fell engines on the Rimutaka Incline, plans were finally put in place to build the Rimutaka rail tunnel.
		The tunnel was officially opened at Speedy's Crossing on the 3rd of November 1955 to great excitement from those present.
		It was from the summit of the Rimutakas, as they looked down on the shimmering lake, that Rangitane named the valley Wairarapa.
	www.featherstoncounty.com /history.htm (2173 words)

	Featherston, New Zealand
		The township of Featherston lies 40km southwest of Masterton at the foot of the Rimutaka Ranges.
		Later, when a railroad was built through the Rimutaka Ranges, large numbers of railroad workers settled here.
		In 1955 the 8.79km Rimutaka railroad tunnel was driven through the hills.
	www.planetware.com /new-zealand/featherston-nz-wt-f.htm (124 words)

	Rimutaka Railway Registration
		The section of rail formation between the Summit and Cross Creek is known as the Rimutaka Incline.
		Trains travelled the Incline to and from the Wairarapa for 77 years from 1878 to 1955 when rail traffic was re-routed through the new Rimutaka Tunnel.
		The former Rimutaka rail route was twice as steep as the steepest mainline railway in New Zealand.
	www.historic.org.nz /news/media_releases/2002_07_04.html (306 words)

	Pahiatua Railcar Society - Articulated Twinset Railcars
		In 1952, Mr H. Lusty, General Manager, in his submissions to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand Railways, forecast replacement of all provincial passenger trains by one-class railcar services, leaving the main trunk expresses as the only long-distance passenger trains composed of ordinary stock.
		He added that, now that the Rimutaka tunnel and deviation were under construction, it was no longer necessary to have a special design for the Rimutaka Incline, and all the new cars would now be standard.
		Introduction of the new articulated cars on the Wairarapa line followed the opening of the Rimutaka Tunnel on 3 November 1955, but it was necessary to use the old Wairarapa railcars on some workings for a time until enough of the big cars were available.
	railcar.netfirms.com /railcar_series/twinset.htm (1828 words)

	-: WALK DIARY :-
		It was called the Rimutaka Incline walk and it followed the route of the old railway from Kaitoke to Cross Creek.
		I had expected some kind of hill before getting to Summit station but all of a sudden I rounded a corned and there it was, a set of old locomotives laid out rusting in the sun and the station shelter newly painted.
		At the dark entrance to Summit tunnel, by far the longest at about 600m, some cruel joker had put up a sign reading, “LISTEN for the train or is it a ghost.” Just what some poor kiddie wants to read before plunging into the darkness.
	www.audio-t.co.uk /danztramp/pt_22_upperhutt.html (3408 words)

	A trip over the incline on H201
		Before the opening of the Rimutaka tunnel passenger travel between Wairarapa and Wellington was by railcar over the incline.
		With the construction of the tunnel almost completed I realised that very soon the famous Fell engines would be a thing of the past - a trip up the incline in one certainly appealed.
		We were out of the tunnel and the engine's doors had been flung open.
	wairarapa.co.nz /times-age/weekly/incline.html (2198 words)

	Where to go in Featherston County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On the 3rd of November 1955 the Rimutaka Tunnel was opened.
		At this ceremony Fell engine No# 199 was presented to the Mayor of Featherston as a memorial to those who had operated the Rimutaka Railway Incline for 77 years.
		The average grade of the Rimutaka Include was a climb on 1 meter in every 15 meters.
	www.featherstoncounty.com /where2go.htm (2443 words)

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