Category: Main North Line
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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…
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Waiau Branch [9A]: Rotherham Station
Rotherham was the ninth station on the Waiau Branch. Using the information from pages 205 to 207 of Les Dew’s book, “The Great Northern”, we can see that it was a very ordinary station that was operated over a 63 year period – from 1915 to 1978 when the line was closed. When the line…
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Waiau Branch [0A]: Series numbering for Waiau Branch articles
We have decided to produce a series of aerial photos for the stations on the Waiau Branch. This will be spasmodic with no set timetable and will be fitted around our existing production schedule. There was no schedule planned originally but because the stations are so small and simple, I have completed a set of…
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Main North Line [0A]: Full set of MNL diagrams
After my “field trip” up north in June I discussed the ideas for making the maps easier to use on a handheld device. The assumption being maps could either be viewed on the Google Photos site online, or downloaded to a device and browsed offline. After considering a range of options, adding navigational arrows and…
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Waiau Branch [1K]: Full aerials added to maps
One of the changes I am now doing with all the aerial mosaics is to render tiles that contain the full aerial photography for an area so that these full images can be used as part of the maps produced. The full aerial images are mainly of benefit for seeing how a greater area around…
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Project Development: Aerial Photography Selection
Progress on the OCR maps has been slow this week because of other work. As far as the maps go, work on the Main South Line maps around Dunedin has been a greater priority. I had an enquiry for the maps around Dunedin Locomotive Depot and it was decided at the same time to download…
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Otago Central Railway [61E], Main North Line [11L]
So this is what is finalised for the fill styles. These two of Addington show the styles for buildings and structures. This one of the second Clyde station shows the site border styles which are dash-dot patterns. I am working on fixing up the aerial photos which turn out to be correct for 1977 (shown…
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Otago Central Railway [61D]: Finishing Maps – Cromwell-Alexandra 2 / Polygonal Styles 2
Below are two samples of Cromwell and Clyde which show the type of styles I am adopting for buildings, structures and sites. These samples show how the new styles are applied to fills such as sites, buildings and structures. This has come about because whilst I already worked out how to apply a white border…
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Main North Line [11K]: Addington 11 / Polygonal Styles 1
Some samples of the workshops site. The styles still have to be finalised before these are released on the website. The main style that needs to be finalised here is the building outlines, because the styles have been previously designed for diagram use with a plain white background and therefore have a solid black or…
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Main North Line [11J]: Addington 10
As of now here is what has been drawn excluding Plant Zone and the workshops. Apart from adding those areas, generationalising all the track (checking to see how much still exists today) is another task to be completed. I have decided to draw all the yards from scratch (compared to the stuff I did in…