Longburn (or Karere) is a rural settlement just outside of Palmerston North in the Manawatu-Wanganui area of New Zealand. Palmerston North (Te Papa-i-oea is the main city of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. Geography Administration The region is comprised by all or parts of ten separate Districts. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Made up of large dairy processing plants Longburn is oftenly mistaken to be a small township and not seen as a large satellite town of Palmerston North. Palmerston North (Te Papa-i-oea is the main city of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. The township is home to both Longburn School and Longburn Adventist College. Longburn Adventist College is an integrated co-educational Christian school for years 7 to 13
Longburn is significant in railway history, as it was the northern terminus of New Zealand's most prominent private railway, the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR). The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company ( WMR or W&MR) was a private railway company that operated a line between Thorndon in Wellington, Its line between Longburn and Wellington was completed in 1886 and at Longburn, passengers and goods transferred between the WMR and the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) network. Wellington (ˈwælɪŋtən is the Capital of New Zealand, the country's second largest urban area, the The New Zealand Railways Department, abbreviated as NZR or NZGR (New Zealand Government Railways and often known simply as the "Railways" was a government On 8 December 1908, the WMR was absorbed into the NZR and Longburn lost its significant interchange status. Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The line through Longburn is now part of the North Island Main Trunk Railway. History Construction Auckland - Te Awamutu Auckland's first railway southwards was the line between Point Britomart and Onehunga, opened in 1873
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