Mataroa was a station on the North Island Main Trunk line,[2] in the Ruapehu District of New Zealand.

[5] By March 1905 a station yard was being formed[6] and by April 1906 it was the railhead,[7] with a pumice road running north as far as Makatote.

[8] North of Mataroa, PWD trains ran to Rangataua by July 1907[9] and to Ohakune by January 1908.

[10] PWD transferred the station to NZ Railways (NZR) on 1 June 1907,[8] when the line was opened by the local MP, Arthur Remington,[11] after which Mataroa had 3 mixed trains a day.

[6] The line to Waiouru was transferred to NZR on 1 July 1908,[14] so that passengers no longer had to change trains at Mataroa.

[6] A post office started on 5 June 1907, was operated by NZR staff from 16 July 1908 and removed from the station on 14 February 1969.

Bennett had a sawmill 1 November 1905 applied for a siding, 2 mi 30 ch (3.8 km) from Taihape.