Category: Main North Line
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Project Diary 2019-08-22
Since last week’s diary report we have continued working on the maps for the Christchurch area. Putting together all the aerial photos can take a while to complete but we now have complete historical aerial photo tiles for Christchurch, Addington and Riccarton, and have started working on ones for Waltham, Linwood, Opawa and Woolston. These…
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Project Diary 2019-08-12
This week we have switched back to the Christchurch area maps due to the impeding local government elections. We are currently working with several candidates and preparing material in order to assist some of their campaigns, in association with Christchurch Transport Blog. Because of this the Midland Line work has temporarily halted, although research at…
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Project Diary 2019-06-02
In the past week there have been two main areas of work in this project. The first area is the Christchurch City maps referred to in a previous diary entry. It has been decided to combine existing maps of the city created for non-rail purposes with the existing rail maps data drawn for the city,…
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Main North Line [0E]: Volume 10 Progress Report [4]
As we have reported in the last few posts in this series, we have been busy collecting aerial images for the Main North Line corridor from Christchurch to Picton and this work is now practically complete. Although a few extra downloads from Linz have been needed, most of the work has been completed and 150…
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Main North Line [0D]: Volume 10 Progress Report [3]
We have decided to push ahead with the MNL corridor LDS images and setting up Gimp mosaic projects as a top priority because of the disk space issue. As mentioned before the downloads for this particular corridor are presently using up lots of disk that we want to recover. As it turns out we already…
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Main North Line [0C]: Volume 10 Progress Report [2]
Of late we have been working on some of the rail corridors around Christchurch by amalgamating Gimp projects covering single station sites into projects that cover a whole section of corridor. This includes both the MSL and the MNL. The first one for the MNL covers from Addington to Ashley, which except for the area…
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Main North Line [14]: Rangiora
Rangiora is the major intermediate station in the former tablet section from Addington (Christchurch) to Waipara (junction of the Waiau Branch). It is also one of the largest towns in rural North Canterbury. It is 30 km from Addington, almost exactly halfway between there and Waipara. The Great Northern Railway from Christchurch reached Southbrook, 3…
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Main North Line [13A]: Glasnevin
Glasnevin was the station on the Main North Line that was located between Greneys Road and Waipara. Apart from the platform and building or shelter, there was a separate siding for the Amberley Lime Co and and for the ballast pit just north of the station. Just north of the pit, the highway used to…
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Main North Line [12A]: Greneys Road
Greneys Road was the first station north of Amberley on the Main North Line. It is shown here in 1961, by which time it apparently consisted of merely a platform and small building or shelter. With 2013 for comparison. The house immediately north of the station, with no apparent road access, may well have been…
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Main North Line [0B]: Volume 10 Progress Report [1]
As part of the development work on various volumes, I am currently working to get a full set of maps of the Main North Line and mapping a few stations in North Canterbury. You can expect to see some maps soon of Amberley, Glasnevin, Waipara, Culverden and possibly some stations on the Waiau Branch, and…