Ongarue railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand, serving the sawmill town of Ongarue.

[4] From 1922 to 1958 most of the timber freight at the station came from the connected Ellis and Burnand Tramway.

[citation needed] It was the scene of the Ongarue railway disaster in 1923, up to then, the worst rail crash in the country.

[5] A memorial was unveiled at the site a century later, on 8 July 2023.

[7] Passenger numbers peaked in 1944, as shown in the graph and table below -