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The Te Aro Extension, also known as the Te Aro Branch, was a short branch line railway in Wellington, New Zealand. It operated from 1893 until 1917. A branch line is a relatively minor railway line which branches off a more important through route. ...
Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke in MÄori) is the capital of New Zealand, the countrys second largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. ...
It should not be confused with the similarly named Te Aro Tramway, which was a trestle causeway built in 1883 as part of foreshore reclamation work.
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In the early 1890s, Wellington had two main railway stations: the Thorndon station of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, whose line ran up the west coast towards Palmerston North, and the Lambton Quay station of the New Zealand Railways Department, which served the Wairarapa Line (the present Wellington Railway Station on Bunny Street did not open until 1937). The Railways Department sought to provide improved access to central Wellington, and began work on an extension from their Lambton Quay station to Te Aro, with the intention to continue the line to Island Bay to serve commuters. The 1.8km long Te Aro Extension was opened on 17 March 1893 and it remained the terminus for the line's lifetime, with no further work undertaken. The extension can be seen as either a branch line in its own right, or as an extension of the Wairarapa Line; it cannot be viewed as an extension of the North Island Main Trunk Railway, as that route out of Wellington was privately owned and separate from the national network for the majority of the Te Aro Extension's life. The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
Palmerston North is a city in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. ...
The New Zealand Railways Department, or NZGR (New Zealand Government Railways), often known as the Railways, was a government department charged with owning and maintaining New Zealands rail infrastructure. ...
Wellington Railway Station Wellington Railway Station is the terminal railway station Wellington, New Zealand and the southern end of the North Island Main Trunk. ...
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Island Bay is one of the southernmost suburbs of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. ...
March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ...
1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
A branch line is a relatively minor railway line which branches off a more important through route. ...
The North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) is the railway line connecting Auckland and Wellington, the two major cities of New Zealands North Island. ...
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Operation The Te Aro Extension never achieved the degree of usefulness envisaged. It would have been satisfactorily located had it been built in the 1870s, but the changing nature of Wellington city meant that by the time the line was built, it did not provide the central city access that was intended. Furthermore, nearby businesses complained about the noise and dirt from the steam locomotives that operated trains on the line, and it was a disruption to traffic on busy city streets. // Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ...
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The line was built with facilities for freight handling at Te Aro station, but it is questionable whether this was utilised much, if at all. Passenger traffic was the line's mainstay, with 212 services operating a week in 1904 - approximately 30 per day. However, competition from the Wellington trams and the line's unpopularity led to a decline to only 62 weekly services by 1916. Closure had been recommended by the general manager of the railways in 1914, and this took place in March 1917 and the trackage swiftly removed. The Wellington tramway system, which existed between 1878 and 1964, was a network of tram services operating in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. ...
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The branch today The development of central Wellington has obliterated all traces of the Te Aro Extension. The corner of a petrol station on Ferry Road once reflected the curve that the line took through that part of the city, but redevelopment has removed this final trace of the railway. [edit]
References - Churchman, Geoffrey B., and Hurst, Tony; The Railways Of New Zealand: A Journey Through History, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand), 1991 reprint
- Leitch, David, and Scott, Brian; Exploring New Zealand's Ghost Railways, Grantham House, 1998 revised edition
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