Birchwood, New Zealand

{{Short description|Locality in New Zealand}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

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Birchwood is a locality in the Southland region of New Zealand's South Island.{{LINZ|2275|Birchwood|3 November 2007}} It is situated west of Ohai and Nightcaps, and north of Tuatapere and Orawia, with the nearest state highway in Ohai.

Birchwood was once the terminus of a private railway line run by the Ohai Railway Board, an extension of the Wairio Branch. The 19 km line from Wairio to Birchwood ran via Ohai and opened in 1934. The section from Ohai to Birchwood had been closed by the time the section from Wairio to Ohai was incorporated into the national network in 1990.{{sfn|Churchman|Hurst|2001|p=210}}