Since our last update we’ve made a lot of progress on all the mosaics which are in six separate projects. We have extracted tiles so far for Wellington to Ngauranga. Whilst that doesn’t sound like a lot, the mosaics for the other areas have practically all been completed except for Featherston-Masterton and the Greytown Branch…

In the last few days we’ve been working on historical maps for Upper Hutt to Featherston. This takes in the old railway over the Remutakas that was bypassed by the Rimutaka Deviation with the big tunnel in 1955. Although this seems to suggest a great rate of progress, we in actuality still have a fair…

We have now completed the 1969/1970 mosaics for the entire line from Wellington to Upper Hutt. We still have to take a look at the 1930s/1940s mosaics for the old western line from Melling to Haywards which will be our next task. Also we will be starting work shortly on the section from Upper Hutt…

Another day, another update report for Volume 6. Work has now moved onto mosaics for the sections from Waterloo to Haywards, which we hope will include some low quality coverage of the western route (the original railway from Petone to Haywards, which closed in 1954) as well as the current main line. We are also…