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This list of Tunnels in New Zealand is a link page for any railway tunnel, road tunnel or waterway tunnel, including any hydroelectric intake or tailrace or gun battery tunnel anywhere in the New Zealand. It includes man-made chambers but excludes caves and mines. For a list of caves, see List of caves of New Zealand.
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1 Hydroelectric Tunnels and Chambers
- Manapouri Power Station - Machine hall (111 m long, 18 m wide, 34 m high) and road access tunnel 2040 m long 6.7 m wide and high with a semi-circular arch roof.
- Manapouri Tailrace - 2 Tunnels - original tailrace tunnel 9817 m, 9.2m diameter horseshoe section, commenced 1964, breakthrough 1968 drill-and-blast construction, sixteen deaths. Second tailrace tunnel 9829 m, 10.05 m diameter, circular section, commenced 1997, breakthrough 2001, commissioned April 2002, tunnel boring machine construction, zero deaths.
- Tongariro Power Scheme
2 Gun Battery or Military Tunnels
- Devonport Tunnels, Auckland
- Stony Batter, Waiheke Island
- Wrights Hill Tunnels, Wellington
- Cashmere Hills - Chamber, ChristchurchChristchurch is a city on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The city is named after the cathedral college of Christ Church in the University of Oxford. Its Maori name is Otautahi from the Maori chief Tautahi who had a settlement on the ba
- Godley Head, ChristchurchChristchurch is a city on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The city is named after the cathedral college of Christ Church in the University of Oxford. Its Maori name is Otautahi from the Maori chief Tautahi who had a settlement on the ba
3 Railway Tunnels
From longest to shortest.
- KaimaiThe Kaimai Ranges is a mountain range located in the North Island of New Zealand. They can be seen as a continuation southwards of the hills of the Coromandel Peninsula, and separate the Waikato in the west from the Bay of Plenty in the east. The range is - 8879 m - opened 12 September 1978Events January January 1 The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay 213 dead. January 4 Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet. - at Apata on the East Coast Main Trunk Line to TaurangaTauranga Urban Area Population 103,600 Extent Omokoroa to Papamoa Beach and south to Tauriko & Ohauiti TerritorialAuthority Name Tauranga City Population 98,500 Extent Wairoa River to Papamoa Beach and south to Tauriko & Welcome Bay See also Western Bay o.
- Rimutaka - 8798 m - opened c. 29 October 19551955 is a common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January events January 2 Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. January 19 The Scrabble board game debuts. February events February 8 Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Mal - between Upper Hutt (Wellington) and Featherston ( Wairarapa), replaced the Rimutaka Incline, a Fell mountain railway.
- Otira - 8566 m - opened 1923 - between Arthur's Pass and Otira, in the Southern Alps on the transalpine South Island Midland Line - continuous 1 in 33 grade - electrified until 1990s.
- Tawa No. 2 - 4324 m - opened 1935, goods on 1 line, 1937 all traffic - longest double track tunnel in New Zealand. Between Wellington (near Ngauranga ) and Glenside (near Tawa).
- Tikiwhata - 2989 m - opened 1943, between Wairoa and Gisborne.
- Lyttelton - 2596 m - opened 1867, between Heathcote valley, ( Christchurch) and Lyttelton.
- Turakina - 2091 m - opened 1947, between Marton, New Zealand and Wanganui.
