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    The 8.38 miles (13.49 km) Tawa Flat deviation is a double-track section of the Kapiti Line just north of Wellington, New Zealand, with two tunnels; the...
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    Duncan Street with the junction of Tawa Street and Tawa Terrace. From June 1937, the double-tracked Tawa Flat deviation diverted the North Island Main Trunk...
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    NIMT from Wellington to Paekākāriki was completed. The Tawa Flat deviation has a long tunnel (Tawa No 2) not suitable for steam operation because of excessive...
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    Tawa railway station, originally called Tawa Flat, is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) and is part of the suburban rail network of Wellington...
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    double tracked Tawa Flat Deviation tunnel. The tunnel bypassed the viaduct completely, tunneling underground between Ngauranga and Tawa. With the opening...
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  • the Otira Tunnel, the Lyttelton Rail Tunnel and the two Tawa Tunnels of the Tawa Flat Deviation. Electrification of Wellington suburban services started...
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    the 1960s. From 1940 the line south to Wellington through the new Tawa Flat deviation was electrified and at Paekakariki engines were changed, with a steam...
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  • Trunk railway also passes through Ngauranga, via two tunnels of the Tawa Flat deviation, with a bridge between them crossing the Ngauranga Gorge. The small...
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    Ngauranga (Wellington) and Glenside (Tawa). With the Tawa No 1 Tunnel (1238 m), part of the Tawa Flat deviation. Tikiwhata – 2989 m – opened 1943, between...
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    Westfield Deviation of the North Island Main Trunk from Auckland to Westfield Junction via Panmure and Glen Innes, opened 1930, the Tawa Flat deviation in Wellington...
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    general election of that year. While the Westfield and Tawa Flat deviations proceeded, the Milson deviation and Rimutaka Tunnel projects remained stalled. The...
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    section to bed double-tracked (from Wellington to Tawa Flat (now Tawa) was the Tawa Flat deviation. it bypassed the steep (1 in 36 to 40) grades from...
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    1928) Westfield deviation (completed 1929) Auckland railway station (1930) Stratford–Okahukura Line (completed 1932) Tawa Flat deviation (completed 1935)...
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    Railway (completed 1908), the Otira Tunnel (completed 1923) and the Tawa Flat deviation (completed 1935). He was also responsible for hydroelectric dam projects...
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  • bottom of the gorge via an overbridge between the Tawa No 1 and Tawa No 2 Tunnels of the Tawa Flat deviation. There is an industrial area and some retail outlets...
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    marshalling areas, goods yards and sheds and using fill from the Tawa Flat Deviation. The Thorndon reclamation began in 1923 and was on track to be completed...
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    New Zealand Railways Department in 1908 until the opening of the Tawa Flat deviation in 1937, the station was on the North Island Main Trunk Railway....
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    to Tawa, roughly along the line of the State Highway 1 motorway. This section was bypassed by the Tawa Flat deviation from 19 June 1937. From Tawa to...
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    suburban services began in July 1938, following the opening of the Tawa flat deviation of the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT). The Johnsonville Line, the...
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    New Zealand Railways Department in 1908 until the opening of the Tawa Flat deviation in 1937, the station was on the North Island Main Trunk railway....
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    south from Johnsonville to Raroa. The line became a branch when the Tawa Flat deviation of the NIMT opened to passengers in 1937, and was sometimes called...
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    when the present-day route on the Tawa Flat deviation was opened for passenger traffic and the Johnsonville to Tawa section of the older, more circuitous...
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    houses in the area. The Tawa Flat railway deviation providing double-track railway with double line automatic signalling as far as Tawa opened to passenger...
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    it and incorporated its line into the NIMT. On 19 June 1937, the Tawa Flat deviation was opened to the south of Kenepuru. It eliminated the circuitous...
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    the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company and bypassed by the Tawa Flat deviation built in the 1930s. The north-bound entrance to the motorway from...
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  • appointed engineer in charge of the Wellington–Tawa Flat deviation of the main trunk railway line. This deviation included the construction of three miles of...
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  • On 19 June 1937, the Tawa Flat deviation to the south of Linden was opened to passenger services with double track from Tawa Flat to Wellington. It eliminated...
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    bypassed in the 1930s by the Tawa Flat deviation. Takapu Road is on the northern section of this deviation. The deviation opened for freight traffic on...
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    public works camp was built at Glenside to house workers building the Tawa Flat deviation of the North Island Main Trunk railway, constructed from 1924 to...
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    minutes, and stopping at Paekākāriki. Following the completion of the Tawa Flat deviation on 19 June 1937, electrification of the railway from Wellington to...
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