Ohotu railway station
Ohotu railway station | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°43′S 175°50′E / 39.71°S 175.83°E | ||||||||||
| Elevation | 396 m (1,299 ft) | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | North Island Main Trunk | ||||||||||
| Distance | Wellington 247.09 km (153.53 mi) | ||||||||||
| Connections | until 5 January 1915 known as Egmont Box Co's siding | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 21 November 1904 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 10 August 1959 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | June 1988 | ||||||||||
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Ohotu railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand. When the station closed to all traffic, on 10 August 1959, it had a shelter shed and passenger platform. It was part of the 13+1⁄2 mi (21.7 km) Mangaweka to Taihape section, opened by the Prime Minister, Richard Seddon, on 21 November 1904. The station was across the Hautapu River from Torere village, which had been surveyed in 1896.
Only a single track remains through the station site and there is little sign that there was ever a station there.
The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of [the] fifteenth night of the moon" for Ōhotu.