Category: Kingston Branch
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Kingston Branch [5B]: Makarewa – Lumsden 2 (Ryal Bush, Wilsons Crossing, Lochiel, Thomsons, Lady Barkly, Limehills, Ords, Centre Bush)
In the last two days the key focus has been mapping in all of the smaller stations now the big ones have been completed. Starting from Makarewa I have looked at every small station that I could get good aerial coverage of. That as it turns out was most of them but Ords and Gap…
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Kingston Branch [5A]: Makarewa – Lumsden 1 (and Lumsden-Kingston)
The main achievement of the last few days has been getting the entire Kingston branch, Hedgehope branch and Mossburn branch current aerial photos assembled together so that I know where all the base imagery is for every station that I can map all along the line in all of those areas. We will have maps…
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Kingston Branch [4A]: Mararoa – Kingston 1 (Kingston 1)
One of the issues of using Linz Data Service aerial layers is that they don’t photograph the whole country every year. They photograph a certain amount every summer, and then there are a variety of different resolutions as well. The consequence of this is that coverage of the Kingston Branch itself, from Invercargill to Kingston,…
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Kingston Branch [3A]: Makarewa – Thornbury 1 (Oporo)
For those of you who must have thought there was an avalanche of posts coming last Monday because I posted four in one day, sorry to disappoint you. That was a just a catch up on material that I had shared throughout the preceding week on Facebook. This week has been lacking posts as well,…
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Kingston Branch [2F]: Makarewa-Lumsden, Mararoa-Kingston. Mossburn, Hedgehope, Tuatapere, Wairio
So now that I have mapped Invercargill-Makarewa and Lumsden-Mararoa on the Kingston Branch, work will be continuing to map, firstly, the rest of the Kingston Branch, followed by the Mossburn Branch, Hedgehope Branch, Tuatapere Branch, Orawia Branch, Wairio Branch and Ohai Railway Board section. This will proceed at a slower pace than previously on the…
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Kingston Branch [2E]: Invercargill-Makarewa 5 (Makarewa 1)
Makarewa (12.12 km) was an important station on the Kingston Branch (Ohai Line) because it used to be a junction. This was where the Tuatapere Branch started off the Kingston Branch. But since the last part of the Tuatapere Branch from Thornbury to Riverton closed in 1978, Makarewa to Thornbury was incorporated into the Wairio…
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Kingston Branch [2D]: Invercargill-Makarewa 4 (Lorneville 1)
Lorneville is the first major station north of Invercargill (7.46 km) on what was the Kingston Branch (Ohai Line today). It is significant for the activities associated with livestock. There is a major stock yard to the east side of the railway that formerly had sidings. To the west is the Alliance freezing works which…
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Kingston Branch [2C]: Invercargill-Makarewa 3: Waikiwi 1
Waikiwi is a former station north of Invercargill on the former Kingston Branch (now Ohai Line). It was 2.73 miles (2 miles 58 chains) from Invercargill. There were several sidings there but the type of traffic that went through Waikiwi is currently unknown to me. A little north of Waikiwi was the McSkimmings Pipe Works…
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Kingston Branch [2B]: Invercargill-Makarewa 2 (Invercargill 2)
Here are aerials for Invercargill Loco for 1958, 1964, 1972, 1985, 1998 and present. I haven’t managed to pin down when the 1964 locomotive shed was demolished but it appears to be sometime between 2008-2013. For the whole of the Southland section of Volume 12, I am at present just making basic map tiles like…
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Kingston Branch [2A]: Invercargill-Makarewa 1 (Invercargill 1)
The Kingston Branch started at Invercargill which was where it came off the Main South Line, the original zero peg being at Invercargill Station. At Makarewa (Junction) the Tuatapere Branch ran to Thornbury (Junction) where the Wairio Branch started from. Since the closure of the Kingston and Tuatapere Branches their former sections Invercargill-Makarewa and Makarewa-Thornbury…