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New Longburn Railway Bridge and Deviation: Opening Ceremony

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 fr...

Creator:      New Zealand Railways
Date:          October 18, 1960

Dutch Railway Workers, Palmerston North Railway Yard

Shown here are Dutch migrants, who arrived on the "Sibajick to Wellington" to work under contract to the New Zealand Railways, in order to help construct the Milson Railway deviation, that took the train station, yards and track out of the centre ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1952

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