Closed 21 October 1963 | Opened 20 October 1876 | |
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Location The Square, Palmerston North
New Zealand Address Palmerston North, 4410, New Zealand Connections Palmerston North–Gisborne Line, Foxton Branch | ||
Palmerston North Central railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand and the Palmerston North–Gisborne Line.
The original station was opened on 20 October 1876, when the Foxton Tramway was reopened as the Foxton Branch, though from 25 July 1873 the Square had been the terminus for the Tramway. Traffic increased with the opening of the line to Napier via Woodville in 1891, and the station was moved 30 chains (603m) south in March 1891. But it was still a bottleneck, and remained the longest-persisting bottleneck on the Main Trunk until replaced by the new Palmerston North Railway Station on the Milson Deviation on 21 October 1963.
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