Category: Main North Line
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Waiau Branch [1A]: Waipara aerials 1972/1979/2014
Although there will be a series for the Waiau Branch in due course (MAYBE!), here are just the aerials to date for a preview. No maps on them as yet. These aerials are a composite of 1972, 1979 and 2015 imagery. When the maps are eventually drawn there will be two different maps – one…
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New compositions [2]
Following on from the previous post about discussing where things can go after Otago Central I have been looking at aerial imagery available for North Canterbury (Waiau Branch and MNL) and Hawkes Bay / Eastland (NGL). At the same time I am also looking at Volume 12 completion (Kingston Branch and its various branches, but…
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Main North Line [7]: Picton 3
Well today’s effort is pretty good considering I spent most of the morning reinstalling my computer (I changed the operating system from Xubuntu 17.10 to Debian 9.1, which has let me build an older Qgis master from source code and install it natively, thus obviating the need to use virtual machines for map work). This…
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Main North Line [6]: Picton 2 (Picton 1959-1984)
I am just about finished laying out the Picton yard. This will have to cease by the end of the week as I want to finish yard layouts and other maps for the Otago Central because maps have to be ready for something getting published soon. We’re going to have a look at how Picton…
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Main North Line [5]: Picton 1
So here is a bit more of Picton. Pretty slow progress but on the other hand the yard is hard to draw because the aerial photography available is pretty poor quality. The original photo of Picton seen in my last post is interesting but I won’t be drawing a layout of the old yard for…
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Main North Line [4]: New map series
The next series I’m working on is the Main North Line and working south from Picton. Since the line is in the process of being reopened it seems like a good time to update the maps there. Most of the maps are already complete and in the main it is a matter of reincorporating new…
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Retrolens Aerial Photos: Waiau Branch
Whilst I am waiting for two more prints of Alexandra to turn up to confirm the FH siding I will just post some stuff about Retrolens. This is a great new initiative from Linz where they are scanning the aerial photos (contact prints) from their surveys at high resolution and releasing them free online. I…
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Main North Line [3]: Clarence
I’m going to go a bit out of sequence here and put Clarence into the mix while also talking about some other things. I had to reinstall the computer that I do the maps on (it was updated to Xubuntu 17.10 which is actually a beta version), this let me update Qgis 2.99 to the…
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Main North Line [2]: Ferniehurst-Claverley
Last post we had a look at Parnassus as the first station within the ambit of the aerial photography that we have as a result of the earthquake in November 2016. There are two main goals to be served by making use of that aerial photography: mapping out all railway features in greater detail, and…
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Main North Line [1]: Parnassus
While I am still revising the article on the Otago Central Railway, actual mapping work has come to a halt on the section Cromwell-Oturehua because all the work that is needed to inform the article writing has been completed. The exception to this is Alexandra, where I am waiting to hear from Archives New Zealand…