Longburn railway station | ||||||||||||||||
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General information | ||||||||||||||||
Location | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°23′08″S 175°32′23″E / 40.385447°S 175.53967°E | |||||||||||||||
Elevation | 20 m (66 ft) | |||||||||||||||
Line(s) | North Island Main Trunk | |||||||||||||||
Distance | Wellington 129.94 km (80.74 mi) | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | 26 July 1873 | |||||||||||||||
Closed | passengers 5 July 1981 goods 13 October 1986[1] | |||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1962 | |||||||||||||||
Previous names | Long Burn, Longburn Junction | |||||||||||||||
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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]