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Browns was also the terminus of a Railway Branch Line from 1953 until 1968. In 1883, a bush tramway was built into the Browns area from a junction with the Kingston Branch in Winton. In the 1890s, it was upgraded to railway standards, extended to Hedgehope , and handed over to the New Zealand Railways Department . This line was known as the Hedgehope Branch and opened on 17 July 1899 with a station in Browns. Passenger services ceased on 9 February 1931 , and due to the decline in freight from stations beyond Browns, the Browns-Hedgehope section closed on 24 December 1953 . Agricultural Lime was the predominant traffic from Browns, and when government subsidies for the transport of lime by rail were slashed and the railway link (the Tokanui Branch ) to the primary destination for Browns lime was closed, freight tonnages fell below sustainable levels. Accordingly, the branch from Winton to Browns was closed on 1 January 1968 . Very little of Browns' railway heritage is now evident in the village. |
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