Personal View of the Waitara Railway Preservation Society Inc.


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Personal View of the Waitara Railway Preservation Society Inc.

*Welcome to a member's site of the,* *Waitara Railway Preservation Society Inc,.* The Society started in May 1999, with very few members. Now after three years we now have 7.5Kms of the Branch line between Waitara and Lepperton, which is in North Taranaki New Zealand

Our Mission

The Society is hoping to restore various railway rolling and other railway items as we go along.

We have our licence and running excursions on the Branch for the public. The first excursion was at Labour Weekend 2003, which was a great sucsess.

Please check now and then for further new and updated pages as will adding as we roll along

Copy this link;-
http://waitara_rail.tripod.com/wrpsinc.branchexcursions/
To take you to our Waitara to Lepperton excursions

Our Running Days

We operate on the First and Third Sundays of every month.

The fares are set at Adults NZ $10.00

Children NZ $5.00

Under Four years of age free.

Family concession available.

Group Charters Avialable.

On board commentary, children are given sweets, our small tunnel, over a stream bridge, through seven road crossings. Up a 1-40 gradient, one of the steepest in the rail network in New Zealand.

A journey of 14.4 Kms return which takes about an hour. First departure is set at 10.00am,then 11.15am, 12.30pm, 14.45pm, the last excursion at 15.00pm.

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Mailing Address:

Waitara Railway Preservation Society Inc.
P O Box 7012
New Plymouth
New Zealand