The Pakuratahi River flows through the eastern Kaitoke Basin from its source in the Rimutaka Ranges.
Neville and his younger brother Dave Hiscock grew up in Stokes Valley, a suburb near Wellington, where they both rode an old BSA Bantam in grass paddocks, and later perfected their skills on the infamous Rimutaka hill climb nearby north of Upper Hutt.
At the opening ceremony for the Rimutaka Tunnel on 3 November 1955, the then Minister of Railways John McAlpine gifted locomotive H 199 to the town of Featherston.
At Cross Creek, at the foot of the Rimutaka Ranges, a Fell Engine (H class) was added to the train to push it up the steep 1 in 15 ascent to the summit of the Rimutaka Incline.
The Rimutaka Tunnel (officially Tunnel 2, Wairarapa Line) is a railway tunnel through New Zealand's Rimutaka Ranges, between Maymorn, near Upper Hutt, and Featherston, on the Wairarapa Line.