National Park railway station
Ruapehu District, New Zealand
National Park railway station, originally Waimarino railway station (and alternatively Waimarino National Park), is a station on the North Island Main Trunk which serves the area around the town of National Park in New Zealand's Ruapehu District. It is served by KiwiRail's Northern Explorer long distance train between Wellington and Auckland. There is a licensed cafe on the platform. At an elevation of 806.8 metres (2, 647 ft), it was the country's highest station with a scheduled passenger stop (although the now-closed Waiouru railway station is higher). About 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the station the railway performs the convoluted dance that is the Raurimu Spiral, one of New Zealand's most impressive feats of engineering. There was a minor collision in 2007, when one Overlander train reversed into the other. Scheduled passenger services to Waimarino National Park railway station were suspended from December 2021 to 25 September 2022.
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