Mangapehi (or Mangapeehi) was a flag station on the North Island Main Trunk line, in the Waitomo District of New Zealand. It was north of Poro-O-Tarao and south of Kopaki.
Ellis & Burnand had a sawmill at Mangapehi from 1901 until 1968.
In 1950 the station was moved almost a kilometre north, away from the sawmill, at a cost of ã13,405. In that year it had 23,636 passengers, 4 staff and railed of timber and 28,633 sheep and pigs, earning ã3,256 from passengers and ã85,473 from freight.
A tramway was built into the bush to the east by Ellis and Burnand, initially with in 1903, and extended further in 1904. By 1909 it was over , which had cost an average of over ã1,000 per mile. At it was slightly longer in 1922. and by 1939 there were over of tramway and when trucks took over in the 1950s.
Gradients were up to 1 in 15, requiring the use of geared Climax locos from 1905, which replaced horses on wooden rails. It also linked the station to the coal mines at Maniaiti / Benneydale. The 1904 Climax is now in the Tokomaru Steam Engine Museum, after ending service in 1954 and being briefly joined by another E & B Climax from their Manunui tramway.
Coal from the Mangapehi mine used the line between 1936 and 1952.