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Turakina station, 1951

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Turakina station, 1951

Sheep crowd a pen in the Turakina station yard, near Whanganui, waiting to be loaded onto a train. Until restrictions on road freighting were lifted, from the 1970s, livestock were mostly transported by rail.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Railways, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18552/turakina-station-1951 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.