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Otago Central Railway [63O]: Ranfurly-Alexandra 15 (Auripo-Ida Valley 2)
Here are the final maps for Ida Valley. I first wrote about Ida Valley station some five weeks ago and had hoped to complete the map quite quickly, but various other issues have meant this has not happened as soon as expected. It is obvious by now that the maps for the Otago Central Railway…
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MSL Branches [3C]: Springburn Branch 3
As a result of the work undertaken at Archives New Zealand over the past couple of weeks I now have a pile of info about the Springburn Branch. The next stage is like Methven to go through it all. I have been busy with other stuff for the past week or two and still have…
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MSL Branches [3B]: Springburn Branch 2 / Project website update
I have started researching the Springburn Branch today. This will be a quick project like the Methven one, with only three morning sessions to look at 103 files. It will take in the latter day history of the line as well as all of the technical information such as the layouts of each station yard,…
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Main North Line [0A]: Full set of MNL diagrams
After my “field trip” up north in June I discussed the ideas for making the maps easier to use on a handheld device. The assumption being maps could either be viewed on the Google Photos site online, or downloaded to a device and browsed offline. After considering a range of options, adding navigational arrows and…
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Project update
Quick update as to where things are up to right now. I was busy over the weekend doing some local transport activism so there hasn’t quite been the expected progress. However I expect to have the Methven branch tiles finished today ready to begin mapping and also push on with the Otago Central Railway at…
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MSL Branches [2F]: Methven Branch 6 / MSL Branches [3A]: Springburn Branch 1
So two posts in one. The Methven Branch research is complete and I now have around 500 pages captured to go through for each station on the branch as well as Rakaia. This means I have at least one layout diagram for every station (however I think there is one station I didn’t get any…
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North Island Main Trunk [5]: Johnsonville-Tawa 5 / Methven Branch / Otago Central Railway
So another set of proofs for the Tawa Historical Society below. Meanwhile everything else is sort of progressing. A lot of map drawing time lately has been taken up on researching the Methven Branch. I haven’t actually drawn anything for branch maps yet, and I just discovered I need to redo most of the aerial…
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North Island Main Trunk [4]: Johnsonville-Tawa 4
Here is the latest set of proofs for the Tawa Historical Society. I am still in discussion for their exact requirement for their book.
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Maps of Christchurch City
Christchurch City gets covered for rail already, of course, but soon I’ll be downloading maps for the entire city, not just for areas around rail lines. The purpose of these being in order to cover my other transport interests, as I am becoming involved in transport advocacy which covers the entire range of transport networks.
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MSL Branches [2E]: Methven Branch 5 / Otago Central / Wellington-Tawa
This is really just a quick catchup as I have been busy with various things and not much actual map work has been done in the last few days. On Friday morning I had a trip into Christchurch Archives to look at Methven Branch stuff. As they are only open half days and have been…