Waro Limestone Scenic Reserve

From the (A) Kerr & Wyatt's Mine coal mine, the (B) Eastern Field Railroad led to the lime kilns at the (C) railway siding on the 1889 established Hikurangi Kamo State Railroad as well as a (D) older, at this time already disused field railway, as can be seen on a map from 1907.

It was closed during the First World War and reopened in 1921 by the Wilson Collieries to extract fuel for the cement works in nearby Portland.

[3] The Northern Colliery Company procured in September 1904 a steam locomotive, which had been built in 1904 at Orenstein & Koppel in Berlin with the factory number 1411.

Later, it was acquired by Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland, where it is still preserved in operational condition.

The quarry was next to Waro railway station,[7] allowing easy transport for many government buildings, including the foyer of Wellington Railway Station,[8] Auckland Railway Station,[9] Napier Post Office; Wellington Central Library, Dunedin Post Office[10] and Dunedin Town Hall.