Takaka Tramway

The Takaka Tramway was a narrow gauge light railway that operated in the Tākaka Valley, Golden Bay, New Zealand, from 1882 to 1905, linking farms and sawmills of the Takaka Valley with the tidal port of Waitapu at the mouth of the Tākaka River.

[2] The public endorsed the proposal of the millers and the Takaka Road Board to lay a tramline.

The line ran from Waitapu Wharf on the coast, south to Tākaka township via Commercial Street.

[3][4] After the inauguration of the tramway in 1882, the steam locomotive Pioneer ran twice daily with a passenger carriage and two to three truckloads of timber between East Tākaka and the port.

[6] In the mid-1890s, the Takaka Tramway Company came into financial problems due to the decline of the timber industry.