Rangiriri railway station
{{short description|Railway station in New Zealand}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
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| name = Rangiriri Railway Station
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| image_caption = Rangiriri Railway Station
Auckland Weekly News 7 May 1914
| address = Rangiriri
| country = New Zealand
| coordinates = {{Coord|37.433023|S|175.150008|E|region:NZ-AUK_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}}
| owned = KiwiRail Network
| line = North Island Main Trunk
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| tracks = double track
from 14 December 1958[http://www.railheritage.org.nz/assets/NZR_MILEAGE_TABLE_1957.pdf NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS GEOGRAPHICAL MILEAGE TABLE 1957]
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| opened = 13 August 1877
| closed = 21 July 1957
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Rangiriri was a flag station about {{Convert|2|km||abbr=on}} south-east of Rangiriri,{{Cite web|url=https://wdcsitefinity.blob.core.windows.net/sitefinity-storage/docs/default-source/your-council/plans-policies-and-bylaws/plans/district-plan-review/section-32-reports/historic-heritage/appendix-10-4-1-3-historic-overview---3-te-kauwhata.pdf?sfvrsn=f02480c9_2|title=WDC District Plan Review – Built Heritage Assessment Historic Overview – Te Kauwhata & District|last=|first=|date=2018|website=Waikato District Council|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} on the North Island Main Trunk line, in the Waikato District of New Zealand, {{Convert|56|mi||abbr=on}} south of Auckland.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18820331.2.44.3|title=Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (New Zealand Herald, 1882-03-31)|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz National Library of New Zealand|language=en|access-date=20 May 2017}} It was {{Convert|588.2|km||abbr=on}} north of Wellington, {{Convert|3.32|km||abbr=on}} south of Te Kauwhata, {{Convert|7.26|km||abbr=on}} north of Ohinewai and {{Convert|9|m||abbr=on}} above sea level.{{cite book|last=|first=|title=New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas|publisher=Quail Map Co.|year=1993|isbn=0-900609-92-3|edition=Fourth|location=|pages=}}
History
The station opened on 13 August 1877.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1880/I/995|title=TABLE NO. 9.— Appendix K. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS.—NORTH ISLAND. Statement of Lengths of Sections Open for Traffic, 31st March, 1880|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz National Library of New Zealand|language=en|access-date=28 May 2017}} The early service averaged about {{Convert|13|mph||abbr=on}}, taking about 4hr 30 mins to Auckland, 15mins to Ohinewai and 38mins to Ruawaro (Huntly).{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18770821.2.29.3|title=Auckland Star|date=21 August 1877|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-02-08}}
Track doubling to ease congestion had been authorised in 1914,{{Cite web|url=http://nzlii.org/nz/legis/hist_act/riaa19145gv1914n37496.pdf|title=Railways Improvement Authorization Act, 1914}} but work was delayed by the war. Doubling from Ohinewai to Te Kauwhata didn't open until 14 December 1958. Rangiriri was a tablet station by 1918.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1918/I-II/1119|title=Signal and electrical RAILWAYS STATEMENT 1918|last=|first=|date=|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}} A cattle yard was built in 1925.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1925/I/1783|title=RAILWAYS STATEMENT 1925|last=|first=|date=|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}} Automatic colour light signals were installed in 1930{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1930/I/2182|title=Signal and electrical. Railways Statement 1930|last=|first=|date=|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}} and electric lighting in 1938.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1938/I/1622|title=Railways Statement 1938|last=|first=|date=|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}}
From 1925 Firth’s had a pumice concrete works near the station,{{Cite web|url=http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/HeritageImages/index.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=heritageimages&QF0=ID&NP=2&MR=5&RF=HIORecordSearch&QI0==%2234-Z225%22|title=Pumice works? at Rangiriri|last=|first=|date=|website=www.aucklandcity.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}} beside Te Onetea Stream, making products, such as garden rollers,{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19310527.2.111|title=MODERN CONCRETE, WAIKATO TIMES|last=|first=|date=27 May 1931|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}} water troughs, concrete posts, pipes, and washing coppers, until it relocated to Frankton about 1934, though a 1935 advertorial was by Firth Concrete, Rangiriri.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/new-zealand-herald/1935/07/20/22|title=This Modern Decoration, New Zealand Herald|last=|first=|date=20 July 1935|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}} 1896 returns show that Firth had an interest in goods traffic at Rangiriri at that time.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1896/I/1636|title=1896. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS STATEMENT. PARTICULARS RETURN No. 20.|last=|first=|date=|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}}
= Incidents =
A goods train was derailed by wrongly set points in 1884.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18840905.2.29|title=RAILWAY ACCIDENT. NEW ZEALAND HERALD|last=|first=|date=5 Sep 1884|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}}
On a bridge north of Rangiriri a pedestrian was killed in 1914{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19140619.2.79|title=KILLED BY A TRAIN. NEW ZEALAND HERALD|last=|first=|date=19 June 1914|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}} and another in 1919.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OG19191229.2.8|title=RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. OHINEMURI GAZETTE|last=|first=|date=29 Dec 1919|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}}
A rail worker was killed on a jigger to the north of the station in 1941.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19411224.2.63|title=Rail Jigger Fatality NORTHERN ADVOCATE|last=|first=|date=24 Dec 1941|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}}
A truck driver was killed at the station site when the Northern Explorer hit his truck at Te Onetea Road level crossing on 27 February 2014. No one on the train was injured.{{Cite web|url=https://www.taic.org.nz/inquiry/ro-2014-101|title=RO-2014-101|last=|first=|date=|website=www.taic.org.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-14}}
File:Rangiriri_railway_station_on_one_inch_map.jpg
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Line open, station closed|next=Ohinewai
Line open, station closed|route=North Island Main Trunk
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