Waihi Railway Station Sheds
Location:
Maddocks Street/Wrigley Street
Waihi 3610
Two workingmen's accommodation huts (two-man hut pre-1947, one-man hut post-1948) for singlemen located adjacent to the Waihi Railway Station. Two gent's toilets constructed of rusticated weatherboard and corrugated iron with steeply pitched shed roofs (c1905). A goods shed constructed of rusticated weatherboard and corrugated iron (1905).
Waihi Railway Station was designed by George Troup and built by W. Hay at a total cost of £1764. The other structures adjacent to the station were probably designed by other architects that worked under George Troop. The Station was completed on 3 October 1905 in time for the official opening of the line between Paeroa and Waihi on November 8th 1905. The first station-master was Mr W J Hessell.
Timetables for 1912 show four mixed (goods and passenger) trains and two goods trains running between Paeroa and Waihi daily. Coal was an early important traffic (the Waikino Battery used approximately 125 tons daily). Between 1905 and 1928 Waihi station was the railhead until the line was extended to Tauranga.
The line and station were closed in 1978.
The line between Waihi and Waikino and the station buildings are now owned and operated by the Goldfields Railway Inc.
