Otaihanga railway station

Otaihanga railway station was a flag station[1] between Paraparaumu and Waikanae on the Wellington-Manawatu Line in New Zealand, when the line was run by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company.

This line is now part of the Kapiti section of the North Island Main Trunk.

The two ends of the line met at Otaihanga on 27 October, and the last spike was driven at a public ceremony by Governor William Jervois on 3 November 1886 before more than a thousand people.

[4] The station served Otaihanga, a then-rural area between Paraparaumu and Waikanae which is now mainly residential.

The station had a waiting shed, and was two miles and nine chains (3.2 km) north of Paraparaumu.

The North Island Main Trunk Railway, looking south from the Otaihanga Road level crossing. [ 9 ] On the right is the location of a former halt; on the left is Southward Car Museum.