rails had been lifted. Today Five kilometres of the Moutohora branch remain open to Makaraka, functioning as an industrial siding to service a fruit storehouse. Many remains of the embankments, cuttings, bridge abutments and tunnels can be seen from State Highway 2 from near Ormond to Matawai. About 5 km of the old roadbed is now the Otoko recreational walkway. Just past the northern end of the walkway, the abutments and one of the steel piers of the 30m high Otoko viaduct are clearly visible to the east of the highway. Between Otoko and Rakauora the current highway runs largely on the old railway alignment, and the piers of the Rakauora viaduct still stand about 100m to the west of the highway just before reaching Rakauora. The Matawhai station platform edge can be seen alongside the Matawai-Moutohora road, and the Motu river bridge truss remains in situ. Some railway buildings remain at various places up and down the old line, but there are now no railway remains left at the site of the Moutohora terminus. Locomotive D 143, one of the two D class locomotives to work on the line in the first few years, has survived and is now in preservation at the Silver Stream Heritage Railway at Silverstream in the Hutt Valley near Wellington. Locomotive WA 165, which arrived in 1911 to work the Gisborne section (as it was then) has also survived in preservation. Now owned by the Gisborne City Vintage Railway Incorporated, it has been returned to running order and is regularly steamed to provide excursions. See also Palmerston North–Gisborne Line Ahuriri / Napier Port Branch Nagtapa Branch References Citations Bibliography External links Information about the Otoko walkway, which follows part of the old roadbed Department of Conservation Silver Stream Railway 'D' class history Gisborne City Vintage Railway Inc. information about Wa165 Remnants of the Moutohora Branch Today Photo of train at Karaka in 1909, at Otoko in 1910 and at Matawai in 1913 Photos of construction work in 1912 Photo of first train at Motuhora in 1917 Railway lines in New Zealand Railway lines opened in 1917 Railway lines closed in 1959 Rail transport in the Gisborne District 1917 establishments in New Zealand 1959 disestablishments in New Zealand 3 ft 6 in gauge railways in New Zealand Closed railway lines in New Zealand