High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Moutohora Branch was a branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand`s national rail network in Poverty Bay in the North island of New Zealand. The branch ran for 78 km approximately North-West from Gisborne into the rugged and steep Raukumara Range to the terminus at Moutohora. Construction started in 1900, and the line was opened to Moutohora in November 1917.