Kawakawa Railway Station, opened in 1884, connects the most northerly township in the Colony with the railway system, the port of Opua being situated eight miles distant with two intervening stations, Taumarere and Te Ake Ake, three and four miles respectively from Kawakawa. The Kawakawa-Opua section was constructed at a cost of £90,000 and has been chiefly used for coal transport, immense quantities having been exported from the Kawakawa mines during the past eighteen years. The line is also largely used for conveying general merchandise to Kawakawa, which is the centre of a populous district. The station at Kawakawa consists of offices, ladies' and general waiting-rooms, cattle and sheep pens, and goods sheds. Bi-weekly trains run between Opua and Kawakawa, or as occasion requires.