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Otago Central Railway [59A]: Taieri Estate Sidings
As of now I am putting together the aerials needed to show three generations of siding development at Taieri Estate. Using four images from DCC GIS I am joining these together to make a 1947 image of the aerodrome, which had a siding used to load fuel until the late 1950s. Right now as can…
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Dunedin-Mosgiel Improvement Works 1907-1914
Few people would know today that more than 100 years ago the railway to the south of Dunedin was very different than it is today. The large embankment as it can be seen in many places, particularly between Dunedin and Caversham, simply did not exist in the original construction works as the railway was built.…
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Otago Central Railway [38B]: Hyde maps updated
The main part of Hyde station yard. There was an engine shed from the time the station opened, until about the 1920s. Hyde had both low and high level loading banks. After the ballast pit siding at Hyde Township closed in 1952, ballast continued to be loaded by truck over the HLLB. The north end…
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Project forum
So yesterday I opened a Facebook group for the maps project, and a number of people have joined it. This means I don’t need to use the general forums so much, although there will be posts there from time to time to announce progress with different aspects, as well as to keep the membership of…
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Otago Central Railway [58]: Article Part 3
So today I have started working on Part 3 of the article, which will cover the railway from Wingatui to Ranfurly. In order to aid this part and finish some of the detail carried over from other parts, I spent two full days recently at Archives in Dunedin getting as much detail as I could…
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MSL Dunedin (2J): Updating / Blanket Bay
As you can see I haven’t actually put anything out about the station yard. That’s because I have got hold of some 1947 aerial photos that will probably be the best ones to see if I can use them for the station yard, if they are sharp enough. Anyway let’s look at something else. Blanket…
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MSL Palmerston-Dunedin [9]: Dunback & Makareao Branches
Today’s effort has been to update the maps for the Dunback and Makareao Branches. I am not actually going to post very much here. Go and have a look at the Volume 11 section of the NZ Rail Maps website which I have just set up with the content for these lines and others. http://volume11.nzrailmaps.nz/
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MSL Dunedin [3]: Historic aerial photos of South Dunedin
A view of the MSL between Kensington and Caversham in 1986. In the lower part of the picture is Hillside Workshops with Carisbrook Stadium directly above it. In the top left the diversion of the MSL off the 1910 double track embankment onto a new single track route to allow for motorway construction is underway.…
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MSL Dunedin [2I]
We’ve started mapping and stopped a couple of times to make further adjustments to the aerials, so not much more has been achieved, but it is just starting to happen now. This is because of the amount of tweaking that can still be done to try to get the images to line up better, and…
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MSL Dunedin [2H]
So here is finally what it looks like loaded into the map software. All the detail was actually drawn from the current maps, so this is really a good starting point to appreciate how much has changed in 40 years in Dunedin. I have decided given the existence of significantly earlier coverage that I won’t…