Mangaroa railway station was a single-platform rural railway station on the Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt and Featherston in the Wellington region of New Zealand’s North Island, on the section that was replaced by the Rimutaka Tunnel deviation in 1955.

His siding handled only timber traffic, but also became a stopping place for main line trains, and was known as Cruickshanks.

He later built a second mill about half a mile closer to Mangaroa station, but the first remained in use until 1889 when the siding was lifted.

[1] In 1912 Seed Bros, who had a mill in Colletts Road, were issued a licence by the railways department for a tramway into the Mangaroa Station yard.

This was to enable work trains to bring lengths of welded rail, other supplies and equipment from the Hutt Workshops directly to the construction site.

When the Rimutaka Tunnel opened in 1955, the line between Upper Hutt and Featherston then followed an alignment that bypassed Mangaroa altogether.

The new Maymorn railway station on the Rimutaka Tunnel deviation was initially called Mangaroa.