Category: Main South Line
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Project update
Well since I wrote in my last post about rearranging my two Flickr accounts, I have been busy – I went away to Dunedin for a few days over Christmas – but I have now completed a monumental task of downloading almost 200 individual albums from the enzedrail Flickr albums and uploading them to the…
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Railmaps of Dunedin
Well I have been pretty quiet for the past week and that will be the pattern from here on in with occasional updates as time permits. Although in this case a lot of that is because of changing computers around as well. It was decided to get more use out of the secondary PC seeing…
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MSL Part 5, Onehunga, Palmerston North
Well now that I have checked to see what aerial coverage exists in Canterbury Maps I have been fortunate to discover full coverage of Rakaia in 1974. I am now considering mapping the rail yards as the quality of this is very good. Burnham and Rolleston were also well covered in the same run of…
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Wairarapa Line [0A]: Volume 6 Progress Update 1
Well after a few days work I have completed maps of the Wairarapa Line. There are 95 individual maps covering roughly 170 km of line. The scale varies from 1:2222 to 1:3333 for the Wellington-Speedys Crossing section (55 km) which has a lot more detail in it as it includes all of the suburban stations,…
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Springburn 1956
Here is the layout of Springburn drawn off the track plan I posted earlier. I am going to update the Mount Somers plan and what I can from other stations so I have an up to date set of maps. As the diagram shows the only thing left on site today is the platform. The…
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Springburn Branch Maps
Well after my last post back in the beginning of the year, things did slow down a bit. A fair amount of mapping work did get done, but not as much as I expected. But I have worked on a lot of different things since then. Currently I am focusing on the Springburn Branch because…