At approximately 5.25pm on Saturday, 14 January a man was struck and killed by a northbound train about 500 metres north of the Ohakune Railway Station.
Emergency services attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man has been named as 42-year-old Mark Andrew Barnfield from Whakatane.
The matter has been referred to the Coroner.
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