Category: Marton New Plymouth Line
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0A]: Intro
I have taken a couple of side trips from the main schedule for the maps this year, for just the month of January. These two are Marton-Whanganui and the Nelson line (volumes 4 and 7 respectively). By the end of January I expect to be back at work on Volume 12 and Volume 5 being…
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Historic Map Mileages
One of the features of NZ Rail Maps is the decision to only use Working Timetable mileages or kilometrages instead of other sources that may not be accurate. The Quail Atlas is the obvious source of distances that have been shown to be inaccurate. It would seem this is because, instead of digging up the…
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Project Updates 1/1/2019
Welcome to the new year. Since the last time I have been busy working on a few sidelines. Maps have been produced in two other areas in particular: a map of the closed Turakina-Okoia route of the MNPL, which was bypassed with a deviation in 1947, and starting to have a look at updates to…
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Manawapou Viaduct Washout, March 1966
Temporary repairs to the Manawapou Viaduct after a March 1966 flood. The bridge was fully repaired about three years later. Source: http://newzealandrailwaymodels.blogspot.com/2015/03/nz120-wooden-trestle-bridge.html
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Manawapou Viaduct Replacement 1914: SATISFACTORY TEST OF A NEW VIADUCT ON THE WELLINGTON-NEW PLYMOUTH RAILWAY: THREE ENGINES, WEIGHING 190 TONS, ON THE MOKOIA BRIDGE.
Both the old and new viaducts are shown in this picture. Source: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19140514-44-2
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Whenuakura? Bridge on the Marton New Plymouth Line
Although I have no information with this photo to show where it was taken, the layout matches the Whenuakura Bridge replacement structure (the original was shown in the previous post). The original structure being washed out in a flood in 1922 was reinstated as a temporary measure, and full replacement was undertaken in 1930.
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REPAIRING THE WHENUAKURA BRIDGE, ON THE PATEA-WAVERLEY SECTION OF THE RAILWAY, TARANAKI, WHICH WAS WRECKED BY A FLOOD IN THE WHENUAKURA RIVER ON JANUARY 12, 1922.
Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19220202-42-2 http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2FHeritageImages%2Findex.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=heritageimages&QF0=ID&NP=2&MR=5&RF=HIORecordSearch&QI0=%3D%22AWNS-19220202-42-2%22