Category: Main South Line
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MSL Branches [17A]: Bluff Island Harbour
This week we took a little side trip to have a look at Bluff with the NZR aerial photos from 1972-3 covering the island harbour as well as the land based station yard. Like many ports, Bluff once had extensive shipside trackwork on the wharves that is no longer needed in this era of containerisation.…
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Project Diary 2019-06-22
This week progress has been slow but there has been headway in completing a set of mosaics for Christchurch along the Main South Line corridor. Another activity is in importing the old Google Earth maps that I have maintained from the beginning of the NZ Rail Maps project, into the Google Maps site. Another option…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [2A]: Ferrymead Heritage Park
This week development continues on the MSL maps for Greater Christchurch. It has been determined that the maps for Greater Christchurch will cover four directions from the centre of the city, namely: Main South Line to Lyttelton Main South Line to Rolleston Main North Line to Rangiora Hornby Industrial Line to Lincoln Work is ongoing…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1G]: Suburban Passenger Terminal Proposals
There are proposals afoot currently to establish a suburban passenger service between Christchurch and Rolleston, which the NZ Government has provisionally allocated $100 million to develop. This would require a train terminal in a more suitable location than the present long distance train station at Addington. This week I have spent most of my time…
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Project Diary 2019-06-02
In the past week there have been two main areas of work in this project. The first area is the Christchurch City maps referred to in a previous diary entry. It has been decided to combine existing maps of the city created for non-rail purposes with the existing rail maps data drawn for the city,…
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Project Development Report [2019I]
This week we have continued working on downloading Linz base imagery and Retrolens historical imagery for the entire MSL corridor. We currently have the base imagery down to about Tumai (just south of Moeraki) and Retrolens down to Pareora, and progress has been a little slow this week, because we took some time on the…
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MSL Timaru-Glenavy[1]: Normanby-Pareora Realignment
Between the locations of 179.5 km and 181.5 km on the Main South Line between the stations of Normanby and Pareora there has been a realignment of the rail corridor. The corridor used to be about 50 metres closer to the beach than it is now. We are indebted to the late Colin Kemp, a…
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MSL Timaru-Glenavy [0A]: Intro 1
For our series of articles on the Main South Line we will break the corridor up into sections and these sections are chosen mostly on prominent stations but also in this case a geographic boundary. Glenavy is on the north bank of the Waitaki river which is the historical boundary between the provinces of Otago…
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MSL Rolleston-Timaru [0B]: Intro 2
So as of today we are back to doing the Main South Line and we are doing it for the same reason as the MNL corridor we just did the aerial imagery of. To free up some disk space with a lot of downloads, and also to have the complete corridor and set of aerial…
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MSL Rolleston-Timaru [0A]: Intro 1
With this particular article I am making it clear I am working towards Volume 11 as a major effort to get something that is actually going to be completed as a volume as soon as possible. This will not be a continuous effort throughout the year but it will be a major focus for the…