Raurimu Spiral
The Raurimu Spiral is a single-track railway spiral, starting with a horseshoe curve, overcoming a 139-metre height difference, in the central North Island of New Zealand, on the North Island Main Trunk railway between Wellington and Auckland.Photo: Duane Wilkins, CC BY 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Raurimu and National Park Village.
Raurimu
Village
Raurimu is a settlement in Ruapehu District, New Zealand. State Highway 4 passes through it, and the North Island Main Trunk railway line runs to the east.
National Park Village
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
National Park, officially Waimarino and also known as National Park Village, is a small town on the North Island Central Plateau in New Zealand. Formerly known as National Park Village, it is the highest urban township in New Zealand, at 825 metres.
Raurimu Spiral
- Type: Locality
- Description: ‘a masterpiece of engineering’ consisting of a single-track railway spiral overcoming a 139-metre (456 ft) height difference on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, New Zealand
- Categories: spiral, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-39.12044° or 39° 7′ 14″ southLongitude
175.40314° or 175° 24′ 11″ eastOpen location code
4VGQVCH3+R7OpenStreetMap ID
node 12850000458OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q2133461
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Raurimu Spiral” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “勞裏穆螺旋”
- Chinese: “勞里穆螺旋”
- German: “Raurimu-Spirale”
- Japanese: “ラウリムスパイラル”
- Slovenian: “Spirala Raurimu”
- Spanish: “Espiral de Raurimu”
- Ukrainian: “Спіраль Рауріму”
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