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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1F]: Christchurch Station 6
I have decided to add maps of Christchurch Station in 1940, 1950 and 1961 to the mosaics. This will be purely for comparison with present day purposes as these are not as high a resolution and it would be time consuming and difficult to trace the track layout. Also only the actual station yard will…
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Otago Central Railway [63D]: Ranfurly-Alexandra 4 (Galloway-Chatto Creek)
This an interim post as the maps for Chatto Creek station are currently being updated to include 1938 and 1956 aerial imagery as well as 1965. The earlier aerial imagery shows details of the ballast pit being open for example as the masking has also been expanded to include the ballast pit area in the…
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Waiau Branch [1K]: Full aerials added to maps
One of the changes I am now doing with all the aerial mosaics is to render tiles that contain the full aerial photography for an area so that these full images can be used as part of the maps produced. The full aerial images are mainly of benefit for seeing how a greater area around…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1E]: Christchurch Station 5
So this has been a lot of work but I now have usable aerial photos of Christchurch, Linwood and Opawa. As I noted previously I chose to extend the limit of the previously drawn maps from Wilsons Road out to the Opawa bridge. This means the total length covered is from just under 9 km,…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1D]: Christchurch Station 4
So I have finally completed the aerial mosaics that will now cover from the western station limits of Christchurch all the way to Opawa. As usual it has just proved easier to add the images for Linwood and Opawa to the Christchurch ones and so these extra steps have been completed along with Christchurch/Waltham. In…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1C]: Christchurch Station 3
The past few days have been busy, however I have made a reasonable amount of progress and these images reflect that. I expect to have the mosaic map tiles for the entire area of Christchurch ready by the end of this week. Here are samples. Right now I just need to add one more aerial…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1B]: Christchurch Station 2
Working with Gimp over the past couple of days has led me to knowledge that will massively speed up the creation of mosaics. Briefly that is the ability to drag-rotate an image in place with a preview of what it will look like for each rotation, and to drag-scale an image in place with a…
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Otago Central Railway [63C]: Ranfurly-Alexandra 3 (Alexandra-Galloway)
So I am continuing drafting the maps and there will be a series of posts each taking in a major station and the track from it to the next station. This will be presented in reverse mileage order, the same as I did when I wrote the Observer articles. I am combining this with viewing…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1A]: Christchurch Station 1
So here is what is being mapped first of all. This area just had industrial sidings except for B Shed. As you can see the map tile boundaries conveniently end just off the west side of the Colombo St overbridge. This map shows the B shed area itself. Opposite it are the Dalgety premises with…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [0A]: Christchurch Station – Introduction
Well this is a new series that will cover the Main South Line within the Christchurch suburban limits (Christchurch-Rolleston). We have already had a detailed look at Addington, which was treated as part of the Main North Line, as it is a junction station. Christchurch is immediately west of Addington, and the mosaic aerial maps…