Early European settlers drove sheep around the shoreline rather than attempt to cross the Remutaka Range between Wellington and Wairarapa. When a railway was built over the mountains in the 1870s, the steep gradient on the Wairarapa side required Fell engines, which have extra horizontal wheels on a central rail. Fell engines were used on the line until a 9-kilometre tunnel opened in 1955.
Wairarapa region: transport,
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Remutaka Incline accident,
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Fell engine,
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Railways,
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Wellington places: eastern ranges,
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Featherston,
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Archival audio sourced from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives, www.soundarchives.co.nz/. Sound files may not be reused without permission from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives (Reference number sa-t-0229pm).
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