Ngahere

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Ngahere (New Zealand)
Ngahere
Ngahere

Ngahere is a locality in the Grey District of the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.[1] The 2001 New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings gave the population of Ngahere and its surrounding area as 315, an increase of 3.9% or 12 people since the 1996 census.[2]

Ngahere is located on the south bank of the Grey River, and State Highway 7 and the Stillwater - Westport Line (SWL) railway pass through the village. The railway reached Ngahere when an extension was built from Brunner on 1 August 1889, and it was the line's terminus until a further section to Ahaura was opened on 14 February 1890. On 1 August 1910, Ngahere became a railway junction when the Blackball Branch was opened, and this branch line operated until a flood in 1966 destroyed its bridge across the Grey River. The branch was formally closed on 21 February 1966.[3] The next year, passenger trains through Ngahere on the SWL were cancelled; since this time, freight trains of coal have been the predominant traffic through Ngahere.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Land Information New Zealand, "Place Name Detail: Ngahere", Geographic Placenames Database, accessed 16 November 2007.
  2. ^ Statistics New Zealand, "Nelson Creek-Ngahere Community Profile", accessed 16 November 2007.
  3. ^ New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas, fourth edition, edited by John Yonge (Essex: Quail Map Company, 1993), 22.
  4. ^ Geoffrey B. Churchman and Tony Hurst, The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey Through History (Auckland: HarperCollins, 1991), 191, 197.

Coordinates: 42°24′S, 171°27′E

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