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Raurimu Spiral The Raurimu Spiral is a single-track railway spiral, starting with a horseshoe curve, overcoming a 139-metre (456 ft) height difference...

and the North Island Main Trunk railway line runs to the east. The Raurimu Spiral, which allows the railway to climb 139 metres, is described as an engineering...

and closed in 1978. It was known as Pukerimu from 1906 to 1908. The Raurimu Spiral is 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi) from the station, and rises 200 metres (660 ft)...

Plateau with deep ravines required nine viaducts and the world-famous Raurimu Spiral. Richard Seddon’s Liberal Government pledged in 1903 that the whole...

valley. The northern surface traces of the fault commence near the Raurimu Spiral and the most southern surface is over 35 km (22 mi) to the south just...

of the Tamaki Sawmill Co. at Raurimu railway station Raurimu Spiral in 2007 (no remains of tramways visible) Raurimu Spiral Tamaki Sawmill Company. Collection...

7349°N 96.8633113°E / 20.7349; 96.8633113 on the Thazi-Taunggyi line. Raurimu Spiral at 39°07′13″S 175°24′04″E / 39.120337°S 175.4010443°E / -39.120337;...

experience and skills to secondary school groups and others. The Raurimu Spiral is a railway spiral traveling upwards 122 m (400 ft) in 1.6 km (0.99 mi), via...

central section between Hamilton and Palmerston North, including the Raurimu Spiral and numerous viaducts – five of which are over 70 metres (230 ft) high...

longer required it. North Island Main Trunk railway (completed 1908) Raurimu Spiral (1898) Otira Tunnel (completed 1923) East Coast Main Trunk Railway (completed...

the town, the railway track performs the convoluted dance that is the Raurimu Spiral, one of New Zealand's most impressive feats of engineering. National...

Register of Historic Places listings in Blair County, Pennsylvania Raurimu Spiral Tehachapi Loop "Horsheshoe Curve". NPSGallery. National Park Service...

station, New South Wales, turns back on itself at about 225 degrees. The Raurimu Spiral in New Zealand has a horseshoe curve as the first part of the climb...

problems due to the terrain, and has several high viaducts and the famous Raurimu Spiral. The Stratford–Okahukura Line to Stratford connected just north of Taumarunui...

Auckland and Wellington. The journey to/from Auckland crosses the famous Raurimu Spiral. Seventeen kilometres to the east of the town is the Tangiwai Bridge...

Whanganui National Park. The district is also home to the world-famous Raurimu Spiral on the North Island Main Trunk railway line. The tourist towns of Raetihi...

necessitated a number of complicated engineering feats, notably the Raurimu Spiral and Rimutaka Incline (the latter no longer in use). The network has...

which he completed the gap in the middle of the North Island with the Raurimu Spiral. He retired in 1920, having been Engineer-in-Chief of the department...

necessitated a number of complicated engineering feats, notably the Raurimu Spiral. There are 1787 bridges and 150 tunnels in less than 4,000 km of track...

of the station the railway performs the convoluted dance that is the Raurimu Spiral, one of New Zealand's most impressive feats of engineering. There was...