New Zealand Rail Maps Project
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State Highway 6 Road Widening at Granity Narrows [1]
Granity Narrows is a section of State Highway 6 between Gowanbridge and Owen River. Gowanbridge is the last completed station on the Nelson Section at 67 miles from the origin, Nelson. When the cessation of work was called in January 1931, formation work was being completed up to about 68 1/4 miles along an embankment…
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Regular and in-depth blog posts are resuming
As you could see from the blog I haven’t actually posted anything all this year. Instead I experimented with making regular posts on the project’s Facebook page but I will be blogging again now and the blog will have more detailed posts on it rather than summaries as there is plenty of interesting stuff happening…
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NZRM Update 2026-09-16
Well people, massive apologies for the lack of posts on this blog all this year. Although the blog hasn’t been updated all this time, the project has had plenty of updates which have been ongoing throughout the year. The main thing that has been happening in September is changes to NZ Rail Maps websites. The…
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NZRM Update 2025-12-06
Well people, as you can see, there hasn’t been an update on the Project in some months. This is due to several planned major events in the Project coordinator’s personal life over the past few months, one of which is still to happen in January. There has actually been a considerable amount of work happening…
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NZRM Update 2025-07-04
The major work in the maps project this month has been with Volume 8 which covers the Nelson Section including the proposed extension to Murchison which was terminated in 1930 incomplete. This would have taken the length of the line to 84 miles / 135 km instead of the 103 km that was formally operated…
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NZRM Update 2025-06-03
This month the main area of work in the maps has been parts of Volume 6, specifically Upper Hutt to Featherston, and latterly Volume 9, which is being completely reorganised, along with the replacement mosaic projects for the Methven and Springburn Branches; the original mosaics project was last heard of in 2022 and seems to…
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NZRM Update 2025-04-30
Webmaps have been captured for this month and are currently being uploaded to the web server. The web page has had a minor redesign and this update and the map tiles will be released tomorrow (1 May). At present the web maps only capture updates for Volumes 1 to 6 (North Island). The Project expects…
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NZRM Volumes: Volume 6 (Wellington-Palmerston North-Wairarapa Railways)
Volume 6 of New Zealand Rail Maps covers the following sections of line: A full set of maps for Volume 6 was published in May 2020 and covered the boundaries of Volume 6 at that time, which were practically the same except for the NIMT section. The maps linked from this page at the time…
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NZRM Update 2025-03-11
Since the last update post, the main work carried out has been in the webmaps site. The site has been built and tested several times and some issues addressed. The site content is currently being reviewed ahead of an expected release next week. It has been found practical to include in this update all revised…
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NZRM Update 2025-02-26
This month the main mapping work completed has been in Volume 1 where the maps of the Donnellys Crossing or Kaihu Branch have been updated. This has been undertaken with assistance from members of the NZ Rail Geography Group on groups.io which is likely to be significantly beneficial to the rest of the project as…