Mangaroa railway station noticeable hump in Flux Road just before the T-intersection with Leonards Road, the site of a level crossing just before the station. Of the station itself only the loading bank remains, at the side of Flux Road. Mangaroa railway station Mangaroa railway station was a single-platform rural railway station on the Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt and Featherston in the Wellington region of New Zealand’s North Island, on the section that was replaced by the Rimutaka Tunnel deviation in 1955. It served the small rural settlement of Mangaroa, in the Mangaroa Valley, east of Upper Hutt. Mangaroa station was not
Sapperton Railway Tunnel Sapperton Railway Tunnel The Sapperton Railway Tunnel, named after the nearby village of Sapperton (near Cirencester, Gloucestershire) carries the Golden Valley Line from Stroud to Swindon through the Cotswold escarpment. It was begun by the Cheltenham and Great Western Union railway in 1839 and taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1843, being completed in 1845. There are actually two tunnels, the main one at 1 mile 104 yards (1704m) in length, and separated by a short gap, a second at just 353 yards (323m). The initial plans for the tunnel, dating from 1835, were unusual in that it