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Project Diary 2019-09-07
As some will know, this week CHAT Club released their “MaRTI proposal”, which suggests the Middleton rail yards could be turned into a housing development. A couple of posts about it have appeared on Christchurch Transport Blog, but the indepth analysis hasn’t been done until the historical maps of Middleton are ready. As per usual…
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Project Diary 2019-09-03
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Project Diary 2019-09-03
Chat Club, a group of transport professionals that has been running rail passenger workshops in Christchurch, proposed at a seminar on Monday evening that the Middleton rail yards could be closed down and relocated further west, to enable the land occupied to be redeveloped for medium density affordable housing (1600 homes approximately). About 50 people…
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Project Diary 2019-09-01:Comment on our relationship with the rest of the NZ rail heritage community
Click here to view this article on NZ Rail Maps Blog Project Diary 2019-09-01:Comment on our relationship with the rest of the NZ rail heritage community
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Project Diary 2019-09-01: Comment on our relationship with the rest of the NZ rail heritage community
As many of you know, we have not always enjoyed good productive relationships with the rest of the NZ rail community which is partly why this project has its own separate Facebook presence and our involvement of various hobbyist groups has waxed and waned over the years. Ongoing politics relating to this project and to…
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Project Diary 2019-08-31
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Project Diary 2019-08-31
In today’s update, we can report we have finally completed the historical map mosaics for the section of the Main South Line from Woolston to Waltham, after splitting the Gimp project into two parts to deal with persistent crashes caused by project file size. The last section to be added this morning was the historical…
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Project Diary 2019-08-29
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Project Diary 2019-08-29
This week work is still continuing on the historical map tiles for Waltham, Linwood, Opawa and Woolston. We have gained some additional resources this week to enable us to speed up the tile production work, so we are also simultaneously working on tile production for Middleton to Hornby section of the Main South Line, and…
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Project Diary 2019-08-22
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