Tangiwai
Site of New Zealand's greatest railway disaster. The Whangaehu River was the site of a lahar (a sudden outpouring from Mount Ruapehu's crater
lake which caused the 1953 disaster) in March 2007, accounting for the mud and still sulphurous smell.
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Memorial
The railway bridge was rebuild close to the original site
© Tim Cooke 2007
