1912 Foxton railway station, wharf, stores and flaxmill
Overview
Locale
New Zealand
Termini
Palmerston North
Foxton
Stations
8
History
Commenced
1871
Opened
27 April 1876 (1876-04-27)
Closed
18 July 1959 (1959-07-18)
Technical
Line length
40[1] km (25 mi)
Route map
Legend
North Island Main Trunk Line
0 km
Palmerston North
0 km
Longburn
Milson Deviation
North Island Main Trunk Line
2 km
Karere
4 km
Tiakitahuna
8 km
Rangitane
10 km
Rangiotu
15 km
Bainesse
22 km
Himatangi
Sanson Tramway
27 km
Motuiti
31 km
Foxton
Map
The Foxton Branch was a railway line in New Zealand. It began life as a tramway, reopened as a railway on 27 April 1876, and operated until 18 July 1959. At Himatangi there was a junction with the Sanson Tramway, a line operated by the Manawatu County Council that was never upgraded to the status of a railway.
The FoxtonBranch was a railway line in New Zealand. It began life as a tramway, reopened as a railway on 27 April 1876, and operated until 18 July 1959...
Foxtons Group plc is a British estate agency company dealing with both lettings and sales. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Foxtons was founded...
North and Foxton subsequently became the MNPL to Marton, the North Island Main Trunk railway to Longburn, and the FoxtonBranch to Foxton. The five kilometres...
freight station on the FoxtonBranch Line south of Palmerston North in the Manawatū region of New Zealand. It served the branch line from 1873 until the...
Zealand consists of four main lines, six secondary lines and numerous short branch lines in almost every region. It links all major urban centres except Nelson...
founding in 1881, the government had built the FoxtonBranch railway linking Palmerston North and Foxton, and had completed surveys of lines down the west...
1878, the Foxton and Wanganui Railway was opened. The southernmost portion between Foxton and Longburn became the now-closed FoxtonBranch, the section...
1870s, sleepers were needed for the Foxton & Wanganui Railway (later the Wanganui Branch, the now-closed FoxtonBranch, and parts of the North Island Main...
Awapuni railway station was a station in Kairanga County, on the FoxtonBranch and, from 1908, the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand, now in the...
on the FoxtonBranch. It was never part of the national network. After the construction of a tramway (later upgraded to a railway) linking Foxton and Palmerston...
original station was opened on 20 October 1876, when the Foxton Tramway was reopened as the FoxtonBranch, though from 25 July 1873 the Square had been the terminus...
location of the junction between the New Zealand Railways Department's FoxtonBranch railway and the Manawatu County Council's Sanson Tramway. Both lines...
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Foxton railway station serves the village of Foxton in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 50 miles 77 chains (50.96 miles, 82.02 km) from London King's Cross...
significant interchange status. However, the FoxtonBranch was retained until it closed in 1959. The branch line resulted in the official name of the station...
'Leicester line') are mixed in size. From Norton to Foxton, the route is a narrow canal. From below Foxton to Leicester it is a wide canal. From Leicester...
been opened on 18 April 1878, as part of the line linking the ports of Foxton and Whanganui. In 1882, the Whitaker Ministry passed the North Island Main...
Littaye. On February 10, 2009, highly decorated British soldier William Foxton, OBE, 65, shot himself in a park in Southampton, England, having lost all...
property entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of UK estate agency Foxtons, and is more recently known as the founder of Pavilion, a business members...
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Warwick is subject to some landowner opposition. Foxton Inclined Plane: Restoration of the wide-beam Foxton Inclined Plane, accompanied by a solution to bypass...
canal was mooted but it eventually bypassed the town and a branch canal was cut from Foxton to Harborough, with wharves at Gallow Hill and Great Bowden...
City was completed in December 2011. The Down platforms at Shepreth and Foxton were extended in 2017 to allow 8-car trains to stop without blocking the...
of the Great Northern Route services, and operates as the south-eastern branch of the East Coast Main Line (ECML). It is underground from Moorgate to Drayton...