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Apata had a [[flag station]] on the East Coast Main Trunk from 28 March 1928 to 11 September 1967,[{{Cite web |last=Scoble |first=Juliet |date=2010 |title=Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations |url=http://www.railheritage.org.nz/assets/dates_and_names.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724032358/http://www.railheritage.org.nz/assets/dates_and_names.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2020 |access-date=23 April 2021 |website=Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand}}] though a special train ran on 29 February 1928[{{Cite web |date=28 February 1928 |title=Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19280228.2.4.5}}] and goods were carried from 5 March. The line was taken over from the [[Ministry of Works and Development|Public Works Department]] from 18 June 1928.[{{Cite web |last=Scoble |first=Juliet |title=Station Archive |url=https://railheritage.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Station_Archive_4web-2.xls |website=Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand}}] The station was on the {{Convert|18.5|mi|abbr=on}} section of the railway between [[Tahawai]] and [[Te Puna]], built by [[Armstrong Whitworth#Overseas operations|Armstrong, Whitworth & Co]] for about £500,000. Due to difficulties in establishing firm foundations for the line and its bridges, it was the last section of the Auckland-Tāneatua line to be completed.[{{Cite web |date=28 March 1928 |title=East coast railway. Poverty Bay Herald |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19280328.2.68}}] It had a shelter shed, cart approach, a {{Convert|30|ft|abbr=on}} by {{Convert|20|ft|abbr=on}} goods shed, cattle and sheep yards, a loading bank, 4 [[Railways Department's Housing Scheme|railway houses]] and a [[passing loop]] for 48 wagons. It also had toilets until they were closed in 1958.[{{Cite web |date=April 2025 |title=Tauranga W Rd |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B034'45.0%22S+175%C2%B054'52.0%22E/@-37.6461901,175.989001,3a,15y,240.64h,89.85t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sRNA6ZXsB53Qo845V0K0NGg!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&w=900&h=600&pitch=0.14550238804753235&panoid=RNA6ZXsB53Qo845V0K0NGg&yaw=240.6441190556016!7i16384!8i8192!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d-37.5791713!4d175.9144339?hl=en&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw== |access-date=2026-04-19 |website=Google Maps |language=en}}] and another at Whatakao,[{{Cite web |title=Kiwitahi Railway Road |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kiwitahi+Railway+Road,+Morrinsville+3371/@-37.7212721,175.6377963,167m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x6d6d0848851b3147:0x1470a4390ed4039a!8m2!3d-37.6979447!4d175.5773434 |url-status= |access-date=2021-04-22 |website=Google maps |language=en}}] {{Convert|4.13|km|abbr=on}} to the west.[{{cite book |title=New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas |publisher=Quail Map Co. |year=1965 |edition=First |pages=3 & 4}}] |
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Apata had a [[flag station]] on the East Coast Main Trunk from 28 March 1928 to 11 September 1967,[{{Cite web |last=Scoble |first=Juliet |date=2010 |title=Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations |url=http://www.railheritage.org.nz/assets/dates_and_names.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724032358/http://www.railheritage.org.nz/assets/dates_and_names.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2020 |access-date=23 April 2021 |website=Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand}}] though a special train ran on 29 February 1928[{{Cite web |date=28 February 1928 |title=Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19280228.2.4.5}}] and goods were carried from 5 March. The line was taken over from the [[Ministry of Works and Development|Public Works Department]] (PWD) from 18 June 1928.[{{Cite web |last=Scoble |first=Juliet |title=Station Archive |url=https://railheritage.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Station_Archive_4web-2.xls |website=Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand}}] The station had a shelter shed, cart approach, a {{Convert|30|ft|abbr=on}} by {{Convert|20|ft|abbr=on}} goods shed, cattle and sheep yards, a loading bank, 4 [[Railways Department's Housing Scheme|railway houses]] and a [[passing loop]] for 48 wagons. It also had toilets until they were closed in 1958.[{{Cite web |date=April 2025 |title=Tauranga W Rd |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B034'45.0%22S+175%C2%B054'52.0%22E/@-37.6461901,175.989001,3a,15y,240.64h,89.85t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sRNA6ZXsB53Qo845V0K0NGg!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&w=900&h=600&pitch=0.14550238804753235&panoid=RNA6ZXsB53Qo845V0K0NGg&yaw=240.6441190556016!7i16384!8i8192!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d-37.5791713!4d175.9144339?hl=en&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw== |access-date=2026-04-19 |website=Google Maps |language=en}}] and another at Whatakao,[{{Cite web |title=Kiwitahi Railway Road |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kiwitahi+Railway+Road,+Morrinsville+3371/@-37.7212721,175.6377963,167m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x6d6d0848851b3147:0x1470a4390ed4039a!8m2!3d-37.6979447!4d175.5773434 |url-status= |access-date=2021-04-22 |website=Google maps |language=en}}] {{Convert|4.13|km|abbr=on}} to the west. name=":1">{{cite book |title=New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas |publisher=Quail Map Co. |year=1965 |edition=First |pages=3 & 4}} |
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The station was on the {{Convert|18.5|mi|abbr=on}} section of the railway between [[Tahawai]] and [[Te Puna]], built by [[Armstrong Whitworth#Overseas operations|Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co]] for about £500,000. Due to difficulties in establishing firm foundations for the line and its bridges, it was the last section of the Auckland-Tāneatua line to be completed.[{{Cite web |date=28 March 1928 |title=East coast railway. Poverty Bay Herald |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19280328.2.68}}] It was unusual at the time for contracts to be given to private companies, rather than to PWD, or worker cooperatives.[{{Cite web |date=1923 |title=Public Works Statement by the Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1923/I-II/1142}}] The contractors built a wharf and stacking yard at Mount Maunganui, and landing-stages at several estuaries along the Harbour. They built 100 x 2-man, 13 x 4-man, 66 x 6-man huts, 46 married quarters, 3 cookhouses, 4 bathhouses, 2 recreation-rooms, quarters for field engineers and had two steam-locomotives, six steam-navvies, six petrol-locomotives, two steam pile-drivers, concrete-mixers, launches, punts, motor-lorries and ballast-trucks. Earthworks amounted to {{Convert|1,229,000|yd3|abbr=on}}.[{{Cite web |date=1925 |title=Public Works Statement by the Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1925/I/1630}}] |
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{{Rail line|previous=[[Aongatete]]
Line closed, station closed
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Towards [[Paeroa railway station|Paeroa]][{{Cite book|last1=Yonge|first1=John Roger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OsnRPgAACAAJ|title=New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas|date=1993|publisher=Quail Map Company|isbn=9780900609923|language=en}}]|next=Terminus|route=East Coast Main Trunk (closed)|col={{BR(E) colour}}}} |
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{{Rail line|previous=[[Aongatete]]
Line closed, station closed
{{convert|6.74|km|abbr=on}}
Towards [[Paeroa railway station|Paeroa]][{{Cite book|last1=Yonge|first1=John Roger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OsnRPgAACAAJ|title=New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas|date=1993|publisher=Quail Map Company|isbn=9780900609923|language=en}}]|next=Terminus|route=East Coast Main Trunk (closed)|col={{BR(E) colour}}}} |
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About 1913,[{{Cite web |date=17 September 1913 |title=The timber trade. Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19130917.2.6}}] [[Whakamarama|Whakamārama]] Land and Timber Co built a [[3 ft 6 in gauge railways|3ft 6in gauge]] [[Bush tramway|tramway]] to serve their mill,[{{Cite web |date=8 August 1919 |title=Possibilities of Te Puna. Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19190808.2.6.5}}] with a phone line alongside.[{{Cite web |date=12 January 1914 |title=Local and general. Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19140112.2.21}}] From May 1914 it carried timber to the wharf, to be loaded on the scow ''Moa'' for Leyland O'Brien Timber Co, Auckland.[{{Cite web |date=9 June 1914 |title=Whakamarama Land and Timber Company. Press |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19140609.2.77.2}}] The timber was mainly [[rimu]], carried from what is now the [[Kaimai Mamaku Conservation Park]] for about {{Convert|6|mi|abbr=on}} to Whakamārama mill and about the same distance to Ōmokoroa wharf.[{{Cite web |date=22 January 1929 |title=Farming prospects at Whakamarama. Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19290122.2.20}}] The ''Moa'' was the ship used by [[Felix von Luckner#Escape|Felix von Luckner]] to escape from the [[Internment|internment camp]] on [[Motuihe Island#History|Motuihe Island / Te Motu-a-Ihenga]] in 1917.[{{Cite web |date=20 December 1918 |title=The Motuihi escape. Auckland Star |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19181220.2.66}}] A fire on ''Moa'' was put out in 1921.[{{Cite web |date=3 March 1921 |title=Fire on a scow. New Zealand Herald |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19210303.2.38}}] From 1919 some of the cut areas were sold for farming.[{{Cite web |date=8 August 1919 |title=Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19190808.2.7.1}}] In 1928 a siding was added to serve the new railway at Ōmokoroa station.[{{Cite web |date=15 October 1928 |title=Provincial news. Auckland Star |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19281015.2.167}}] The mill, which was just east of the village,[{{Cite web |date=1943 |title=1:63360 map Sheet: N58 Te Aroha |url=https://mapspast.org.nz/?zoom=13&x=1863470&y=5820504&layerid=NZMS1%201959 |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=mapspast.org.nz}}] was rebuilt in 1930, after a fire. At that time the tram was worked by two steam locomotives and a converted Ford tractor.[{{Cite web |date=7 April 1930 |title=Reconstruction of Whakamarama mill. Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19300407.2.17}}] Some of the rails were lifted in 1941[{{Cite web |date=14 May 1941 |title=The county roads and highways. Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19410514.2.31}}] and no tramway equipment was mentioned in a 1947 advert selling other items from the mill,[{{Cite web |date=24 September 1947 |title=Bay of Plenty Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19470924.2.2.3}}] but the upper part of the tramway may have remained in use until about 1947. The rest of the track was lifted by 1969. |
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