Whitecliffs Branch

Whitecliffs Branch
Glentunnel Railway Station
Overview
Status	Closed
Owner	Railways Department
Locale	Canterbury, New Zealand
Termini	Darfield Junction Whitecliffs
Stations	7
Service
Type	Heavy Rail
System	New Zealand Government Railways (NZGR)
Operator(s)	Railways Department
History
Opened	3 November 1875
Closed	31 March 1962
Technical
Line length	18.4 kilometres (11.4 mi)
Number of tracks	Single
Character	Rural
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Route map Legend Midland Line Darfield Junction West Coast Road Bangor Road Hawkins River bridge Hawkins Blacks Stream bridge Waianiwaniwa River bridge Homebush private siding to Bush Gully Coalgate (Bluff) Homebush Road Glentunnel Culvert bridge Glentunnel (Surveyors Gully) Surveyors Gully bridge South Malvern Whitecliffs This diagram: view talk edit

The Whitecliffs Branch was an 18.4 kilometres (11.4 mi) long branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network in the Canterbury region of the South Island.^[1] It was more industrial than the many rural branches on the South Island's east coast whose traffic primarily derived from agriculture, and it operated from 1875 until 1962.^[2]