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    The Remutaka Tunnel (spelled Rimutaka Tunnel before 2017) is a railway tunnel through New Zealand's Remutaka Range, between Maymorn, near Upper Hutt, and...
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    The Remutaka Range (spelled Rimutaka Range before 2017) is the southernmost range of a mountain chain in the lower North Island of New Zealand. The chain...
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    The Remutaka Rail Trail (spelled Rimutaka Rail Trail prior to 2017) is a walking and cycling track in the North Island of New Zealand. It runs between...
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    carriage trains. Later in November, the 8.8 km Rimutaka Tunnel opened, bypassing the Remutaka Incline and most of the existing line between Upper Hutt...
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    Remutaka Hill Road in the 1870s. It starts at the road and zig-zags its way up the exposed slope, through returning native bush and shrub. The Tunnel...
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    Wairarapa Connection service to Masterton via the Hutt Valley and the Remutaka Tunnel. At off-peak, 8–10 trains per hour leave Wellington, broken down they...
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    seven Category 2 sites, and one historic area. The historic area, the Remutaka Incline Rail Trail, crosses into part of neighbouring South Wairarapa District...
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    was closed by the following day along with the rest of the line over the Remutaka Ranges. By March 1956 most of the track between Summit and Pigeon Bush...
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    Palmerston North, due to track upgrades requiring a 46-day closure of the Remutaka Tunnel. In the late nineteenth century, the first members of the K class to...
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    of the city. Further around the view of the Hutt Valley, Tararua Range, Remutaka Range, and Matiu / Somes Island. The first event recorded on Mount Victoria...
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    its source in the Remutaka Ranges. The old route of the Wairarapa Line railway, which closed with the opening of the Rimutaka Tunnel in November 1955,...
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    has increasingly become a satellite town of Wellington since the Remutaka rail tunnel opened in 1955; at the 2006 census, 36% of employed Featherston residents...
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    Mangaroa Rural area View from the Remutaka Rail Trail at Mangaroa Coordinates: 41°07′15″S 175°06′49″E / 41.1207°S 175.1137°E / -41.1207; 175.1137 Country...
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    Speedy's Crossing, near Featherston. The incline formation is now part of the Remutaka Rail Trail. The construction of a railway from Wellington to Masterton...
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  • a large hairy creature, the cops decide to head for the bush near the Remutaka Range. There, they discover that the creature is a Maero, a giant from...
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    runs southwest through the Wainuiomata Valley located in the southern Remutaka Range in the North Island, New Zealand. The word Wainui-o-Mata is a Māori...
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    Greytown to Featherston. The highway then winds through the Remutaka Pass, between the Remutaka and Tararua Ranges, crossing into the Hutt Valley. SH 2 follows...
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    stop; the Maoribank Tunnel under Mount Marua Drive (539 metres or 1,767 feet long) was built during construction of the Rimutaka Tunnel in 1953–54. Maoribank...
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    the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand, and is the...
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    largest town in the Wairarapa, a region separated from Wellington by the Remutaka ranges. It stands on the Waipoua stream between the Ruamāhunga and Waingawa...
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    of Monday 18 May 2009. As part of preparation works for the Remutaka and Maoribank Tunnel track upgrades, in October 2023, the unused eastern platform...
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    proximity to Wellington and the advantage of the 8.8 km Rimutaka Tunnel through the Remutaka Ranges compared to the narrow and winding Rimutaka Hill Road...
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    named the wetlands after the way the lake appeared to glisten from the Remutaka Ranges to the west. During British colonial times the region was also known...
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    metre hydroslide was added in 1984. Wainuiomata Regional Park adjoins Remutaka Forest Park, a protected forest park south of Wainuiomata. The park contains...
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    County covered all the area south of the Waikanae River and West of the Remutaka Ranges that lay outside of Wellington City. As the population of local...
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  • Valley Flyer. The Wairarapa is physically separated from Wellington by the Remutaka Range. Connections to Wellington are made by the Wairarapa Connection train...
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  • include: Dun Mountain Trail Little River Rail Trail Otago Central Rail Trail Remutaka Rail Trail Trails similar to rail trails can follow other infrastructure...
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    The Wainuomata/Ōrongorongo water supply catchment area lies within the Remutaka Ranges to the east of Wainuiomata. The collection area covers 7,600 hectares...
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    County covered all the area south of the Waikanae River and West of the Remutaka Ranges that lay outside of Wellington City. As the population of local...
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