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Bunnythorpe

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Bunnythorpe

A train passes the township of Bunnythorpe, on the Palmerston North–Marton section of the main North Island line, in 1897. The connection through to Auckland was still over a decade away from completion.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Manawatū and Horowhenua places – Halcombe to Ashhurst, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9413/bunnythorpe (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2009, updated 22 April 2015.