Glen Afton Branch

Glen Afton Branch
1955 Glen Afton, showing coal mining area, view to Pukemiro Collieries coal processing plant with railway in valley. Whites Aviation Ltd :Photographs. Ref: WA-38779-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. [1]
Overview
Other name(s)	Rotowaro Branch, Rotowaro Industrial Line, Awaroa Branch
Status	Open
Owner	KiwiRail
Termini	Huntly Glen Afton
Stations	7
Service
Operator(s)	KiwiRail
Rolling stock	None
History
Opened	1911
Extended to Pukemiro	1915
Extended to Glen Afton	1924
Closed beyond Rotowaro	1973
Technical
Line length	7.97 km (4.95 mi)
Number of tracks	Single
Character	Rural
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Route map Legend km 0.00 Huntly Huntly Town Waikato River Huntly West Lake Puketirini Lake Waahi Weavers Crossing Mahuta 7.97 Rotowaro Rotowaro (original) Pukemiro Bush Tramway Club 14.10 Glen Afton This diagram: view talk edit

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The Glen Afton Branch was a branch railway line of 7.9 km (originally 14.1 km) in the Waikato in New Zealand, built to serve coal mines in the Awaroa district west of Huntly at Rotowaro, Pukemiro and Glen Afton. Rotowaro is Māori for "coal lake".

When handed over from Public Works to NZR in 1915 it was called the Awaroa Branch,^[1] but was also known as the Glen Afton Branch to about 1974, then as the Rotowaro Branch to 3 November 1988, then as the Rotowaro Industrial Line. By 2014 it was again named the Rotowaro Branch.^[2][3]