New Zealand Rail Maps

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  • NZ Rail Maps Volumes Site Development 2021-06

    Since our last blog post some three weeks ago, the focus has been on creating various volumes with the intention of these being uploaded on the Volumes site. Work has been going on for Volume 10, as well as parts of Volume 11, the most notable latter example being the maps which have been created…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report [2021C]

    Good day and welcome to our third project development report for 2021. As the text below documents, project progress is being made on the Main North Line maps. The overall project since completing the first stage of the webmaps last month has shifted towards completing maps in various areas so that the webmaps can be…

  • MNL: Wharanui To Ward

    Since the closure has occurred of the Tar Barrel Tunnel (No.21), maps have been produced for the entire section from Wharanui to Ward. These incorporate a number of changes that have taken place in this section relating to: Wharanui, Mirza and Ward stations. Wharanui is now only a crossing station and the other two have…

  • Kiwirail Announces Opening of Tunnel 21 Deviation

    Today, 25 May 2021, Kiwirail has announced the opening of the deviation of the Main North Line at Tunnel 21 (Tar Barrel Tunnel) between Mirza and Wharanui. The part of the Main North Line between these locations was the historical Picton Section built in stages south from Picton between 1875 and 1915, and the railhead…

  • Tokarahi Branch

    The Tokarahi Branch, which branched from the Ngapara Branch at Windsor, approximately 16 km inland from Oamaru, is one of those branches we know very little about historically. The information in the fourth edition of the Quail Atlas is inaccurate, omitting a certain amount of detail about the line, which is most probably due to…

  • Fairlie Branch Stations: NZRM Stations Site Plan

    As you would have seen from yesterday’s post, some information on stations of the Fairlie Branch Line was posted as a proposed series of articles. It is time consuming to produce articles such as these, the main reason why they stopped coming out a while ago, and given that a separate Stations site is being…

  • Fairlie Branch Stations [1]: Racecourse – Waitawa

    This post is about the stations on the Fairlie Branch and there will be two or three posts on this topic. It’s a long time since anything like this has been written on this blog (in fact all the posts of this type generally go back to Blogger days) and there isn’t any plan concerning…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report [2021B]

    Here is our second project development report for the NZ Rail Maps project for 2021. At the beginning of this year, after making the decision to launch our own web site, NZ Rail Maps was set up on the current hosting platform as three distinct sites, all of which are subdomains. This blog is hosted…

  • NZRM Update 2021-05-01: Webmaps Stage 1 Completed

    Good morning. Today, with the release of the final update, NZ Rail Maps Webmaps Stage 1 is now complete. This is an important achievement and milestone for the NZ Rail Maps project; it represents the first time that a complete set of maps for the whole country has been available from the project. The criteria…

  • NZRM Update This Week

    This week, Stage 1 of the NZ Rail Maps Web Maps will be completed. At the time of publishing this blog, Volume 11 has been completed and is being checked for completeness, whilst Volumes 7 and 8 are currently being added to the webmaps and will be completed over the next day or two. Apart…