Raurimu railway station
Raurimu railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk, and in the Manawatū-Whanganui region.
It opened in 1906 and closed in 1978. It was known as Pukerimu from 1906 to 1908.
The Raurimu Spiral is from the station, and rises to the National Park railway station on the North Island Volcanic Plateau; on a direct line this would be a gradient of 1 in 24, but the Raurimu Spiral reduces the gradient to a 1 in 52.Raurimu
In 1906 the administrative office of the northern section of the Public Works Department which was building the NIMT was moved to a group of "tents and huts" at Raurimu, and at its zenith the Raurimu community numbered a thousand men, women and children.
The settlement of Raurimu in the early 20th century had two bush tramways for forestry; Knight's tram, Raurimu of the Raumiru Sawmilling Co and a tramway of the Pokata Timber Co.
