Hīhītahi was a station on the North Island Main Trunk line,[1] in the Rangitikei District of New Zealand,[2] in the Hautapu River valley.

[9] When opened on 1 July 1908 the station was Tarangarere,[10] changed to Turangaarere on 15 April 1909 and to Hihitahi on 21 August 1910.

[12] The Public Works Department (PWD) had the rail and telegraph lines through Hīhītahi[11] built by 1906.

[13] NZR took it over as a flag station on 1 July 1908, when the railhead from the south was extended from Mataroa to Waiouru.

Quin Bros siding was noted in 1909[11] and, in 1910, owners of the Hawera Sash & Door Co Ltd,[18] had a 4 mi (6.4 km) tramway linking their logging area to their mill and the railway.

[17][20] In 1940 a boulder, estimated to weigh 120 tons,[21] slipped onto the line just north of the station, derailing K-Class locomotive,[22] No.919.