It was a 'flag station', originally 3mi (4.8km) north of Te Rapa and 4mi (6.4km) south of Ngāruawāhia and named Pukete.[4] The station was moved just over a mile to the north in 1880, to be 76mi (122km) from Auckland.[5] It seems no explanation was given[6] for the controversial move.[7] The station changed its name from Pukete to Horotiu on 23 June 1907.[8]
Traffic remained light, amounting to £49 in 1901.[9] It was converted to a switch-out station in 1909,[10] equipped with distant signals in 1916,[11] when the AFFCO sidings opened,[12] and had other alterations to signalling and interlocking in 1934,[13] with extension of automatic signalling from Mercer to Frankton.[14] In 1930 Frankton to Horotiu (6mi 55ch (10.8km)) was double tracked, with automatic signalling also extended 34mi 72ch (56.2km) to Mercer. Horotiu's power interlocking was the first automatic operation of main line points in the country, replacing home and distant signals, Wood's locks[15] (a single key for signal and facing points, named after S P Woods of McKenzie and Holland)[16] and the tablet station.[15] The 3mi 54ch (5.9km) north to Ngāruawāhia was double track from 5 December 1937.[17]
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