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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: Wairarapa Line Main Line Corridor Both the North Island Main Trunk and the Wairarapa Line start at the platforms at Wellington Railway Station. This is an interesting historical ambiguity from 1937 in that the lines before that started at the individual stations…
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NZRM Volumes: Volume 5 (Palmerston North Gisborne Line)
Volume 5 of New Zealand Rail Maps covers the Palmerston North Gisborne Line and all its branches. The sub volumes for each part of Volume 5 and the areas they cover are as follows. PNGL Main Line Corridor Volume 5 coverage of the Palmerston North Gisborne Line starts at 7 km just beyond Whakarongo station.…
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NZ Rail Maps Web Site Migration
Currently work is under way to migrate the NZ Rail Maps website to a new hosting platform. This can be expected to be the last post on this blog before the migration occurs. The webmaps site is being left on its current hosting platform but with a new site address which is www.nzrailwebmaps.nz . This…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-16: Midland Line, Palmerston North Gisborne Line, NIMT
Work is currently continuing to update the Midland Line maps. Due to other distractions, map work is fairly slow at the moment and could be stopped altogether for the last two weeks of June to allow catchup in other areas. At the moment the main area of progress is around Greymouth. Work has also been…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-07: Wairarapa Line, Midland Line
Since the last report work has been continuing on the Wairarapa Line maps with new coverage added for Featherston, Carterton and Masterton. However there is no timeframe for when the new material might be added into Volume 6, and previous plans to draw in historical deviation routes for the Rimutaka Incline are currently not scheduled…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-05-22: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line, Webmaps
This week much effort went into maps of the Wairarapa Line, updating the coverage using 2021 high resolution maps of the urban areas (Featherston, Carterton and Masterton plus some other parts). Partly this is for the Wairarapa level crossings programme community response and partly so that the next update of Volume 6 can make use…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-05-15: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line
In the past week progress has been made mainly in the Rapahoe Branch in relation to Volume 9, the Midland Line corridor. This means that completion of the Rapahoe Branch maps is now much closer to completion, with work now shifting onto finishing the adjacent Rewanui Branch adding the final historical coverage. At this stage…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-05-09: Midland Line, Main North Line, Auckland
In the past week the work on NZ Rail Maps has mainly been in the Midland Line project which is scheduled for completion by the end of the month. After a bit of slack time, work resumed again in full force towards the end of last week and is pushing ahead rapidly. The current work…
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Prices Creek, Otago Central Branch
Prices Creek was a steam locomotive watering place at 59.5 miles on the Otago Central branch. Opened in 1924, it operated until 1963 when the branch line was deviated to replace the bridge over the creek. The deviated route is part of the Otago Central Rail Trail and those traveling on the trail at this…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-04-28: Midland Line, Stratford Okahukura Line
This week, work has focused on receiving the latest batch of aerial photos that have come in from the Crown Aerial Film Archive via Linz. These are all for the Midland Line, and cover both the main line and the branches of the Midland Line that are currently being worked on for maps development and…