Moerewa railway station

Moerewa railway station was a flag station at Moerewa on the Opua Branch of the North Auckland Line in New Zealand. The portion of the Opua–Grahamtown Line from Kawakawa to what was then called Scoria Flat was finished about 1905. In May 1908 it was noted that trains ran to Scoria Flat about once a week, as there were no houses and "what little traffic arises is almost solely from villages further inland." By 1909 plans were being made for stockyards and a gravel pit, but on 23 December 1910 the Minister of Public Works decided to abandon the station at Scoria Flat and move the shelter shed, platform, goods shed, loading bank, small stockyards, 2 x 400 gallon tanks and sidings to Otiria Junction, "as the site was found unsuitable for the junction of the Kaikohe Branch." Bay of Islands County Council and others asked for the station to be reinstated, but that didn't happen until the Kauri Timber Company negotiated for a site for a sawmill. On 14 July 1910 the Public Works Department connected the rails from Whangārei to Kawakawa. On 31 March 1911 the Towai–Kawakawa Section got a certificate of Inspection, as safe for traffic at 20 mph (32 km/h). The line from Whangārei was officially opened on Thursday 13 April 1911. Waipuna, as it was then known, didn't become a stopping place on the line until 29 April 1912. In 1921 trains took about 3½ hours to cover the 43 mi 54 ch (70.3 km)

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