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This photograph is the complete picture of a three part panorama of The Square, taken from the Post Office tower on the corner of Main Street. At this time The Square was bisected by the railway tracks, with trains running through The Square until 1964 when the deviation around the city was completed. See also 2014N_Sq367b_008716, 2007p_sq367c_squ_0497 and 2014N_Sq367d_008717 for the individual sections.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2014N_Sq367a_008715
Title
Train Steaming through The Square
Held In
Coolstore
Original held in
Public Photograph Collection Sq 367a
Date
1912

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Place
Palmerston North

Object rights

License
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Taxonomy

Tags
photographs,
railway,
smoke,
the square,
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Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh visiting Palmerston North
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