New Zealand Rail Maps

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  • Wairarapa Line [0FF]: Volume 6 Progress Update 32

    Wairarapa Line [0FF]: Volume 6 Progress Update 32

    Good afternoon. We are pleased to report that all mosaics needed to complete Volume 6 have now been created, and are being exported into tiles for Qgis today. This will enable us to resume a much speeded up rate of completion for the maps to be pushed forward with station and other layouts drawn from…

  • Project Diary 2019-12-19: Greater Christchurch Maps Update

    In the last few weeks our research has continued of Greater Christchurch maps, branching out into looking into railway housing in Heathcote and Lyttelton. The development of railway housing in large cities is naturally very different from small towns, as these two examples show. We plan also to take a closer look at railway housing…

  • Heathcote Pumping Station Siding & Ferrymead Railway Siding [2]

    Following on from last month’s post about the Heathcote Pumping Station siding, here is an updated map showing the Heathcote Expressway cycleway that is expected to be built along this corridor within the near future. It will cross over the Ferrymead Railway siding and then follow the Main South Line corridor to Truscotts Road.

  • Project Diary 2019-11-15: Greater Christchurch Maps Key Milestone

    We are pleased to announce a key milestone has been reached in the Greater Christchurch maps we are producing as part of the NZ Rail Maps project. We have now completed the historic aerial photo mosaic projects for all of Greater Christchurch, that is, the following four sections of railway: Eastward: Main South Line from…

  • Project DIary 2019-10-26: Christchurch Maps

    It’s been another busy week of gathering research information and a lot of work pulling out map tiles. As noted in previous posts, we spend a lot of time each week, currently around 6 hours, researching all the stations in the Greater Christchurch area. This will involve viewing around 50 files a week and copying…

  • Project Diary 2019-10-18: Christchurch Maps

    Progress on the maps this week has continued to focus on the Main North Line section of Greater Christchurch. This inches on towards completion with, we estimate, just a week more work to finish it. Quite a bit of work was needed just to add a 1955 aerial image showing the old route between Chaneys…

  • Project Diary 2019-10-12: Christchurch Maps

    Local government election results are in and the unfortunate conclusion is we will not see much that improves Public Transport over the next three years in Greater Christchurch. More about this in Christchurch Transport Blog in the next few days. Meanwhile Greater Christchurch maps are the main focus this week again and in recognition of…

  • Project Diary 2019-10-03: Christchurch Maps

    Well here’s another update, and promises, promises, promises…. the last week has slowed things down a bit due to having to deal with other issues, but we are back up to speed now. Plus there have been more than a few issues with Gimp that caused crashes, meaning having to go back and redo stuff…

  • Project Diary 2019-09-24: Main South Line

    The southern most section of the Main South Line, from Templeton to Burnham, for the Greater Christchurch maps, has been completed in a mosaic form, with eras of historical maps varying from the early 1940s through to the year 2000. We had only intended to go as far as Rolleston, but as Burnham is just…

  • Project Diary 2019-09-12: Hornby Industrial Line

    As we continue assembling maps for Christchurch Transport Blog use, currently we have shifted to the Hornby Industrial Line, which is historically the section of the former Southbridge Branch from Hornby to Lincoln. It was designated as such in July 1962 after the branch was closed beyond Lincoln. In December 1967, the section of the…