The Rockies Incline was an inclined tramway on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand that for ten years from 1925 to 1935 brought coal from the Westport Main Coal Company’s mine on the Millerton-Stockton plateau down to the Westport to Seddonville railway line near sea level.

[1] It ran from the Westport Main Coal Company’s Westport Main Mine on a flat-topped ridge at the western edge of the Millerton-Stockton plateau and descended a steep escarpment to the coastal plain near sea level – with a total fall of about 550 metres (1,800 ft)[2] and a length of about 750 metres (2,460 feet).

[6] A little coal was produced in 1933 and 1935, but the company was then liquidated and the mine and incline abandoned.

[7] During its life, the Rockies Incline carried a total of about 187,550 tons of coal.

[8] There are few traces of the former route of the Rockies Incline visible today.