Summit railway station was at the summit of the Wairarapa Line over the Rimutaka Ranges in the Wellington region of New Zealand’s North Island and was where trains were marshalled for a descent down the Rimutaka Incline or for Fell locomotives to be extricated from a train that had ascended the Incline.

Summit had no platform or other passenger facilities, did not consign goods or otherwise serve any settlement save for the railway staff based there, and had no road access at any time during its operation.

In December 1874, on learning of the slow progress the contractors were making on the tunnel, the Government made the first of many complaints, which seemed to have the desired effect.

The Evening Post, a critic of the railway, reported in the following March that work was proceeding rapidly and satisfactorily.

Increasing traffic levels prompted a major reorganisation of the yard in 1903, with the north end extended and a new approach curve established, more sidings laid, and mechanical interlocking installed with a new signal box for the lever frame and associated equipment.

There was never any station building; the only structures on site being the signal box, five or six houses, and a locomotive shed until the late 1920s.

The safety sidings had ground discs to indicate the position of the points, and both ends of the yard were protected by home signals.

[1] The final train to pass through Summit was a Carterton Show Day excursion, on the evening of Saturday 29 October 1955.

Summit station yard is now part of the Rimutaka Rail Trail, a public walking/cycling track that was opened on 1 November 1987.

are against closing down the existing Rimutaka Rail Trail to public use,[citation needed] though the Trust does have plans to create a new walk way alongside their reinstatement.