[2] It carried quartz from gold mines in the Kaimai Range to water-powered batteries in the Waiorongomai Stream valley below.

[1] It was built to the rare 2 ft 9 in (838 mm) gauge, thought to be that used on bush tramways in the Waitawheta and neighbouring valleys.

[3] A & G Price's first locomotive was built for the line, but proved too large for the curves and was sold for less than half its cost in 1885.

[3] DOC has restored parts of the tramway, now used by Waiorongomai Valley tramping tracks.

[10] Quartzville was a small settlement near the top of the tramway, which had shops and a post office in the 1880s.