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Kōrero: Manawatū and Horowhenua places

Train running through the Square

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Train running through the Square

Until 1963 the main trunk railway line ran through the centre of Palmerston North – the Square.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-151711; F

by William Barbour Beattie

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Manawatū and Horowhenua places – Palmerston North, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9428/train-running-through-the-square (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 22 April 2015.