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Description

A souvenir programme for the opening ceremony of the New Longburn Railway Bridge and Deviation. Constructed between 1958 and 1960, the new steel and reinforced-concrete bridge replaced an earlier wooden rail bridge over the Manawatū which dated from 1886.

Identification

Object type
Multi-Page Document
Content type
Published material
Date
October 18, 1960
Digitisation ID
2022Pa_A175-233-OpeningCeremony_038989
Format
Paper

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deviation,
longburn,
railway,
railway bridge,
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