So here we are at Arthurs Pass with a selection of historic aerial photos dating from 1943, 1966 and 1971, the last of which being the NZR station surveys. We could also have made use of the NZR corridor survey of the early 1980s that we used for Otira. However, there would have been very…

The Midland Line has/had a number of branches, starting with Whitecliffs Branch and Oxford Branch in Canterbury, and progressing through to several on the West Coast. The longest of its branches has been the one from Greymouth to Ross, a total distance of just over 60 km. The history of railways in the Grey District…

This week the main focus is on the Midland Line because I need to update some maps of Otira for a requested requirement there. This means setting up a Volume 9 project in Qgis (it hasn’t been done yet, like several of the other volumes) and getting together all the base aerial photography for the…