Longburn railway station

Longburn railway station
Wellington and Manawatu locomotive no 7 with the mail train from Wellington. The Foxton train waits at the other platform, in 1888 or 1889
General information
LocationNew Zealand
Coordinates40°23′08″S 175°32′23″E / 40.385447°S 175.53967°E / -40.385447; 175.53967
Elevation20 m (66 ft)
Line(s)North Island Main Trunk
DistanceWellington 129.94 km (80.74 mi)
History
Opened26 July 1873
Closedpassengers 5 July 1981
goods 13 October 1986[1]
Rebuilt1962
Previous namesLong Burn, Longburn Junction
Services
Preceding station   Historical railways   Following station
Awapuni
Line closed
1 mi 8 ch (1.8 km) 		  Foxton Branch
NZR 		  Karere
Line closed
1.71 km (1.06 mi)
Palmerston North
Line open,
station open
6.29 km (3.91 mi) 		  North Island Main Trunk
KiwiRail 		  Linton
Line open,
station closed
5.72 km (3.55 mi)

Longburn railway station was a station in Longburn, on the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand.[2][3] The platform, which is across from the Fonterra Factory,[4] remains but the structure has been demolished.

There have been four station sites at Longburn. From 1873 it was on the Foxton-Palmerston North tramway. When the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR) opened from 1885, a station was built to the south of the Foxton line[5] (see photo to right), in 1905 a new station opened on the Awapuni side of the junction and, after the Milson Deviation opened in 1959, a new station was built to the north[6] in 1962.

The station was originally called Long Burn,[7] then Longburn Junction[8] and Longburn.[9] The junction role was diminished once the WMR became part of New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) and, since closure of the Foxton branch, it has only had junctions with sidings.

The only clear remnants of the stations are two passing loops.[10][11]

Fonterra transports milk collected from farms by rail from southern Hawke's Bay to Longburn[12] and runs two trains a day to Whareroa.[13]

  1. ^ Juliet Scoble: Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations in New Zealand
  2. ^ New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas (First ed.). Quail Map Co. 1965. pp. 3 & 4.
  3. ^ Pierre, Bill (1981). North Island Main Trunk. Wellington: A.H&A.W Reed. pp. 289–290. ISBN 0589013165.
  4. ^ "Basemaps". basemaps.linz.govt.nz. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  5. ^ "1:63360 map, Sheet: WN52". www.mapspast.org.nz. 1925. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  6. ^ "1:50000 map Sheet: S24 Foxton". www.mapspast.org.nz. 1980. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  7. ^ "MANAWATU HERALD". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 8 February 1880. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  8. ^ "EVENING POST". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 21 July 1886. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  9. ^ "LONGBURN RAILWAY STATION. MANAWATU STANDARD". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 18 July 1904. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Reserve Rd". Google Maps. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Longburn Overbridge". Google Maps. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Fonterra increases rail use". RNZ. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Submission on Climate Change Commission 2021 Draft Advice for Consultation" (PDF). Fonterra.