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Project Diary 2019-08-22
Since last week’s diary report we have continued working on the maps for the Christchurch area. Putting together all the aerial photos can take a while to complete but we now have complete historical aerial photo tiles for Christchurch, Addington and Riccarton, and have started working on ones for Waltham, Linwood, Opawa and Woolston. These…
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Project Diary 2019-08-12
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Project Diary 2019-08-12
This week we have switched back to the Christchurch area maps due to the impeding local government elections. We are currently working with several candidates and preparing material in order to assist some of their campaigns, in association with Christchurch Transport Blog. Because of this the Midland Line work has temporarily halted, although research at…
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MSL Branches [17A]: Bluff Island Harbour
Click here to view this article on NZ Rail Maps Blog MSL Branches [17A]: Bluff Island Harbour
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MSL Branches [17A]: Bluff Island Harbour
This week we took a little side trip to have a look at Bluff with the NZR aerial photos from 1972-3 covering the island harbour as well as the land based station yard. Like many ports, Bluff once had extensive shipside trackwork on the wharves that is no longer needed in this era of containerisation.…
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Project Development Report [2019K]
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Midland Line [0E]: Volume 9 Progress Report 5
Click here to view this article on NZ Rail Maps Blog Midland Line [0E]: Volume 9 Progress Report 5
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Project Development Report [2019K]
This brief report is to update progress for 2019 so far as the year is now more than half over. At the start of this year work was happening on the MNPL line which continued until the end of January and then work was switched onto the Main North Line, followed by the Kinleith Branch,…
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Midland Line [0E]: Volume 9 Progress Report 5
This is a brief update on progress with Volume 9. Currently we have completed the route alignment as far as Otira and the details of the Otira yard tracks are being drawn in. A decision has been made to use the available aerial photography we have as far as Kotuku to draw layouts of all…
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Midland Line [4B]: Arthurs Pass-Otira 2: MRC Summit Line 2
Click here to view this article on NZ Rail Maps Blog Midland Line [4B]: Arthurs Pass-Otira 2: MRC Summit Line 2