Category: Main South Line
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NZRM Volumes: Volume 10 (North Otago)
NZRM Volume 10 covers all railways in North Otago and part of South Canterbury on the East Coast of the South Island. There is approximately 500 km of mainline trackage within this volume. As at September 2024 only a part of Volume 10 has been fully mapped and this article will be updated as further…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-09-10: Volume 6, Volume 10, Webmaps
Although last month it was said the Volume 10 Dunedin-Mosgiel maps had been brought to a close, this has in fact only just happened. The delay was mostly due to the need to get the Volumes section of the NZRM website accessible again, which required the menu to be reinstated at the top of each…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-08-18: Volume 10, Volume 12
This month the work on Dunedin-Mosgiel maps in Volume 10 has been brought to a close, and a quick investigation has been done with sample maps for the Tuatapere-Orawia Branch. This Southland line originated at Makarewa (12 km north of Invercargill on the Kingston Branch) with the first 28 km to Riverton opened in 1879,…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-07-17: Volume 10
This month the work on Volume 10 specifically for Dunedin to Mosgiel is being brought to a close. Part of this work is to produce some historical maps for an article appearing in the NZ Railway Observer. At the same time a complete set of maps will be produced for the section which will be…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-06-30: Volume 10
Progress on NZ Rail Maps has been slow during the past month, but the Volume 10 work needed for Dunedin to Mosgiel is practically completed, however about a week of work is still required to generate some maps from this. A hardware upgrade has just been completed on the map production computer so the Volume…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-05-25: Volume 10
Well our apologies for such a long time since the previous report. Work has been slowed somewhat in the current month, but is proceeding satisfactorily and some hardware upgrades have been performed on the Project’s computers to increase production speed for both mosaics and maps. The main effort in recent weeks has been in Volume…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-03-30: Volume 10, Volume 11
This month’s report highlights progress mainly in Volumes 10 and 11. Volume 10 work has been on completing a set of maps of the Dunedin-Mosgiel section. But the majority of work has been completed in Volume 11 and has focused around the Roxburgh Branch. Here the goal has been to complete a full set of…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-01-29: Volume 10, Volume 1, Volume 4
Apologies for such a long time without an update but it is that time of year. At any rate after taking a break for a few weeks a lot of work has been happening on various aspects of the project. Webmaps are not getting a mention just now because there is still a lot of…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-12-21: Volume 10, Volume 12, Webmaps
So work is still happening to prepare for a webmaps update, as previously flagged. This is running a bit behind because we are all so busy at this time of year, of course. As such, it may be into next year before the site is actually updated, but it will still be flagged as a…
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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…