Waro (Northland) Tramway Area

Waro is the Maori word for coal, and the Tainui tribe was known to use coal for their cooking fires. So it is not surprising that there is a railway station on the North Auckland Line that was called Waro and is the centre for a number of coal mines and a lime works. A number of tramways served these industries between 1889 and 1955. The following table lists the tramways operated by individual companies with links to their own pages.

An important resource that has not been sourced yet is titled "Hikurangi, The Story of a Coal Mining Town" by Madge Malcolm

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Tramways in the Waro area

Class	No	Company	Length	Start Year	End Year
1	Northern Coal Co
2	Hikurangi Coal Co
3	Kerr & Wyatt
4	Limeworks