New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Main North Line

  • Mina Station, Main North Line

    Mina is a small rural locality on the Main North Line at 119.4 km. It was formerly the railway station for the Cheviot township. The section of railway it is located from was formerly known as the Cheviot Branch because at that time, the main line was the route via the Weka Pass to Waiau.…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-10-17A: Proposed Work Schedule To End of 2024

    After consideration the work schedule for the maps project from date to the end of next year is proposed as follows. The plan is to complete up to four volumes which are already well in hand and therefore only need a relatively small amount of work to complete. So all of these are in the…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-05-15: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line

    In the past week progress has been made mainly in the Rapahoe Branch in relation to Volume 9, the Midland Line corridor. This means that completion of the Rapahoe Branch maps is now much closer to completion, with work now shifting onto finishing the adjacent Rewanui Branch adding the final historical coverage. At this stage…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-05-09: Midland Line, Main North Line, Auckland

    In the past week the work on NZ Rail Maps has mainly been in the Midland Line project which is scheduled for completion by the end of the month. After a bit of slack time, work resumed again in full force towards the end of last week and is pushing ahead rapidly. The current work…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – August 2022

    During the month of August, work has been carried out on Volumes 9 (Midland Line) and 11 (Main South Line), the former in order to inform a field trip planned into the area late this year or early next year; and the latter to push ahead with the completion of this volume. In fact, in…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – June 2022

    During June, the rail maps project slowed down somewhat as resources were put into creating a series of historical maps for Christchurch City for the purposes of other allied blogs, including Transport Safety Blog and Christchurch Transport Blog. This work is ongoing at the time of writing this, but in the last week of the…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – May 2022

    During the past month the Project has focused, following the mid-April field trip, on completing Volume 11 maps for the Main South Line corridor from Lyttelton to Oamaru and all branch lines thereof. Subject to the adjustment of boundaries referred to in last month’s report, Volume 11 will now start just south of Rolleston, or…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – April 2022

    Welcome to the New Zealand Rail Maps project development report for April 2022. This month the project has supported the launch of the new Transport Safety Blog NZ site. Whilst this is not directly related to the NZRM project, it is hosted on the same platform and shares common resourcing. It will focus partly on…

  • NZRM GPS Projects

    One of the greatest technological advances of the last 50 years in mapping has been the advent of GPS, the Global Positioning System originated by the US government in 1973. The first GPS satellite was launched in 1978 and since then, the GPS system has offered major benefits for navigation especially with the present day…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – February 2022

    Good evening and welcome to the project development report for February 2022. This month the project focus has shifted to Volumes 10 and 11, with Volume 11 getting the most attention this month. This has been done in order to complete research on branch railways around the Canterbury Region in order to inform a proposed…