Category: East Coast Main Trunk Railway
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020D]
So here is our latest update on the overall NZ Rail Maps project. As we made clear earlier this year, we are working on completing all 12 volumes in 2020. That is an aspirational goal and for various reasons it’s quite possible that goal won’t be met. However it is worthwhile making a serious attempt…
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East Coast Main Trunk [2A]: Kinleith Branch 1
So last year I wrote some posts about Rotorua, specifically the old railway station in the middle of the city. I also wrote I didn’t expect to do any more of the ECMT for a while. Well here I am nearly 8 weeks later writing about the ECMT again. This is because at the moment…
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East Coast Main Trunk [1B]: Rotorua Branch 2 (Rotorua Station 2) : Five Generations Of Rotorua
This will be the last posting about the ECMT for a while. I have no plans to map any other parts of the ECMT or its various branches for the present time (even though I did spend some time recently downloading coverage for some other ECMT parts). Rotorua is a well known city in the…
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East Coast Main Trunk [1A]: Rotorua Branch 1 (Rotorua Station 1)
Rotorua Station based on a 1966 aerial photo.
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Remnants of the old East Coast Main Trunk Railway
As Google Earth coverage keeps getting better, we keep discovering more about the geography of New Zealand, with one of my interests being former railway lines. There are still some areas of the North Island that use old Landsat low res coverage, I hope they will get some Cnes/Spot coverage soon. In a former life…