The Waihi Railway Station Historic area contains the most complete collection of early railway structures left in New Zealand. It is representative of the typical country station both in the placement and in the design of the remaining structures. The collection includes the station building, Goods Shed, Stock Yards, Semaphore Signals, Gents Toilets, Single Mens Huts, Jigger Sheds, a Wooden Derrick Crane, Railway houses and sidings. Even those structures which are not rare individually attain considerable significance as part of this collection.

As well as the rolling stock Goldfields Railway sites contain a variety of Non Passenger rolling stock awaiting restoration. These include F564 Guards Van – LH2042, 7824 & 20306 – MC2012 & 142 – UG42 – XA896 – VB’s 381 & 1570 – H1311 – KP’s 1835 & 3168 – T80 and UC 873. There is also a variety of velocipedes and motor trolleys housed at Waihi Station, some which are still used on a daily basis to carry out track maintenance.

F601
Year of manufacture 1943
Weight 23000kg
Length 17,080 mm


10 tonne steam crane No. 227- TMS ELS 1030
Builder – Cowans, Sheldon, England
Year 1937, Weight 45720 kg, Length 6706 mm
Runner Wagon EA2420
Year 1937, Weight 20210kg, Length 11430mm

Carriage A1196
Year 1911
Weight 19450kg
Length 15240mm

Open carriage EA3868
Chassis manufactured 1911, Body Manufactured 1993
Weight 13400kg
Length 15240mm

Carriage A1288 (side entry doors)
Year 1913
Weight 17200kg
Length 14476mm

Car Van: AL1759
Year 1931
Weight 23400kg
Length 15240mm

Waihi Station
Year 1905
George Troup B Type

Baguley Drewry with open carriage EA3868 and carriage A1288


Goldfields Railway’s line between Waihi and Waikino features three historic New Zealand Railway Bridges.

Waikino Station


Baguley-Drewry
Builder Baguley Drewry Ltd 3650
Year 1968
Weight 18,000kg
Engine; Cummins NH220
Length 5000mm

Barclay Price
Year 1947 (Barclay Steam Loco)
1972 (A&G Price conversion to diesel)
Weight 18,000kg
Length 7100mm


Price Petrol Loco
Year 1944
Weight 5600kg
Length 3350mm





Peckett
Peckett Steam Locomotive, 042T
Builders No 1957
Year 1938
Weight 11,000kg
Cylinder diameter 179mm
Coupled Wheel Diameter 609mm
Length 4929mm

Drewry TR Diesel
Builder No. 2246
Year 1948
Weight 12Tonnes
Engine Gardiner 6LW
Length 4329mm

Drewry TR Diesel
Builder No. 2247
Year 1948
Weight 12 Tonnes
Engine Gardiner 6LW
Length 4329mm

Waihi Yard
View of Waihi yard showing group of motor trolley storage sheds.

Railway Village
View of Waihi complex showing ancillary buildings and railway houses built 1905

State Highway 2 overbridge
steel arched girder (ex west end of Karangahake Tunnel)

Waitekauri River bridge
Wooden Howe truss

Waitete Stream bridge
wooden trestle support, steel girder stringers.

Waikino Station
Built as the second railway station at Paeroa in 1925 the station was moved to its correct location at Waikino and restored by the Department of Conservation in 1990. Goldfields Railway leases the Waikino complex which contains the Waikino Station Café and information centre, a comprehensive historic display on the districts mining and pictorial information relating to the Karangahake walkway features.