Otago Central Railway

Otago Central Railway
DE class locomotive 504 on the Otago Central Railway
Overview
Status	Open to Middlemarch, passenger, closed beyond Middlemarch
Owner	KiwiRail (first 4km) Dunedin Railways
Locale	Otago, New Zealand
Termini	Wingatui Middlemarch
Stations	3
Service
Operator(s)	Dunedin Railways
History
Opened	1921 (to Cromwell)
Closed	1980 (Clyde - Cromwell) 1990 (Middlemarch - Clyde)
Technical
Line length	64 km (originally 236 km)
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Minimum radius	140 metres (7 chains)
Operating speed	50 km/h
Highest elevation	28 m to 254 m
Maximum incline	1 in 50
Route map Legend km½ Main South Line to Dunedin │ to Invercargill 0½ Wingatui 4½ limit of KiwiRail running Salisbury Taioma Parera Mount Allan Christmas Creek Hindon Deep Stream Flat Stream The Reefs 45½ Pukerangi Matarae Matarae Siding Sutton 64½ Middlemarch Ngapuna Rock and Pillar Hyde Hyde Township Tiroiti Kokonga Waipiata 123½ Ranfurly Wedderburn Oturehua Ida Valley Auripo Lauder Omakau Chatto Creek Galloway 207½ Alexandra 214½ Clyde (new) Clyde Doigs Waenga 236½ Cromwell km½ This diagram: view talk edit

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The Otago Central Railway (OCR) or in later years Otago Central Branch Railway, now often referred to as the Taieri Gorge Railway, was a secondary railway line in Central Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand.