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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.

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

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