Category: Main South Line
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MSL Branches [2F]: Methven Branch 6 / MSL Branches [3A]: Springburn Branch 1
So two posts in one. The Methven Branch research is complete and I now have around 500 pages captured to go through for each station on the branch as well as Rakaia. This means I have at least one layout diagram for every station (however I think there is one station I didn’t get any…
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North Island Main Trunk [5]: Johnsonville-Tawa 5 / Methven Branch / Otago Central Railway
So another set of proofs for the Tawa Historical Society below. Meanwhile everything else is sort of progressing. A lot of map drawing time lately has been taken up on researching the Methven Branch. I haven’t actually drawn anything for branch maps yet, and I just discovered I need to redo most of the aerial…
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MSL Branches [2E]: Methven Branch 5 / Otago Central / Wellington-Tawa
This is really just a quick catchup as I have been busy with various things and not much actual map work has been done in the last few days. On Friday morning I had a trip into Christchurch Archives to look at Methven Branch stuff. As they are only open half days and have been…
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MSL Branches [2D]: Methven Branch 4 – Rakaia 2
Here is another complete set of pictures of Rakaia. There are three sets in total, from north to south, and in order, each set covers 1942, 1974, 1984 and 2012.
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MSL Branches [2C]: Methven Branch 3 – Rakaia
Above is the Rakaia station as seen in 1942. There was a freight yard (to the right) and a passenger platform (to the left). Methven Branch passenger trains left from the western (in this case upper) side of the island platform, while the main line was on the eastern side (lower). Note the turntable tucked…
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MSL Branches [2B]: Methven Branch 2
The last few days have been spent working in one single Gimp project containing the tiles for all the stations on the Methven Branch, together. At the same time, lists of NZR files for every station have been collated to research at Christchurch Archives as the hoped for set of plans of the station layouts…
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MSL Branches Series: MSL Branches [2A]: Methven Branch 1
For this series on MSL branches the articles will be numbered by branch, hence why the first post starts at series 2. Southbridge / Little River is 1, Springburn is 3, Fairlie is 4, Waimate is 5, Kurow is 6, Ngapara / Tokarahi is 7, Dunback / Makareao is 8, Port Chalmers / Walton Park…
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Project Update
It’ll be a few days until I have some more stuff to publish so this is just a quick interim update. Otago Central Railway: Right now I am finishing off the map of Chatto Creek with adding the extra aerial photos from 1938 and 1956 to the 1965 image that I already have. So pretty…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1F]: Christchurch Station 6
I have decided to add maps of Christchurch Station in 1940, 1950 and 1961 to the mosaics. This will be purely for comparison with present day purposes as these are not as high a resolution and it would be time consuming and difficult to trace the track layout. Also only the actual station yard will…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1E]: Christchurch Station 5
So this has been a lot of work but I now have usable aerial photos of Christchurch, Linwood and Opawa. As I noted previously I chose to extend the limit of the previously drawn maps from Wilsons Road out to the Opawa bridge. This means the total length covered is from just under 9 km,…