As ever, work continues at a frantic pace to complete all the maps for Volume 5. It’s been quite surprising the extra work that has cropped up in the last week, due to additional detail being discovered about some of the stations around Gisborne.  The maps have (hopefully) been completed for the Moutohora/Makaraka branches and…

Here’s the third part of an article series about three railway stations on the outskirts of Gisborne, the names of which all start with M. This post specifically relates to Makaraka, a station at the end of the Makaraka Branch, which is the first 3.5 km of the old Moutohora Branch. Makaraka is the second…

As we are getting into the more intensive research around Gisborne railways, we keep discovering new information, and so this series of articles has been extended further. We originally planned three parts, but we currently predict five, possibly more if needed. The main reason for extension is discovering more information about stations in the Gisborne…