Category: Midland Line
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-04-28: Midland Line, Stratford Okahukura Line
This week, work has focused on receiving the latest batch of aerial photos that have come in from the Crown Aerial Film Archive via Linz. These are all for the Midland Line, and cover both the main line and the branches of the Midland Line that are currently being worked on for maps development and…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-04-21: Midland Line, Oamaru Showgrounds, PNGL
Work continues at Volume 9, Midland Line in particular in recent times. A large batch of nearly 160 aerial photos requested from Linz is being delivered at the moment and checked in for various details as they arrive. This will expand coverage of different parts of the Ross Branch, and the Midland Line between Moana…
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Rewanui Station
Aerials of the Rewanui station and historical mining features of the area dating from the 1970s. The branch line closed 1985 after the last State mine loading to rail shut down. The branch line and main railyard, which was split between the station area to the right and the loading backshunt to the left, where…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-04-12
Work is continuing to complete Volume 9 of NZ Rail Maps covering the Midland Line and its branches. A batch of aerial photos has been received from Linz covering mainly some of the major stations of the area, Greymouth, Hokitika, Rewanui, Ross and Stillwater. These are now being worked into the maps whilst the detailing…
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Midland Line Maps Nearing Publication
In the past week, more progress has been made on preparing the Volume 9 (Midland Line) maps of the New Zealand Rail Maps Project for publication. The existing historical mosaics have been brought together and preparations made to add some more from requests made to Linz from the Crown Aerial Film Archive for NZR aerial…
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Volume 2 / Volume 9 Progress Report
This week the Project is continuing work on both Volume 2 and Volume 9 of the maps. Volume 9 is being brought forward for all of the maps of this section to be printed in the next two weeks. This comprises the main line of the Midland Line starting from 3 km, just west of…
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Updates to NIMT – Palmerston North & Midland Line Maps
This week work has continued adding new content mainly to the NIMT maps for the Palmerston North area. The limited content available at the Retrolens site has been supplemented by significant historical aerial photo resources dating back to 1937 (at Longburn) and the area covered by this particular project will run from Linton to Whakarongo…
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New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – December 2022
Here’s to the completion of another year of development of the New Zealand Rail Maps Project. This year has been unlike any other as it has seen a great many personal challenges to overcome which have produced delays and distractions throughout. Almost all of the year has been devoted to completion of Volume 11 of…
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New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – November 2022
Work has continued at a renewed pace over the past month to move things along in the Project back to the speed of development which has been more typical prior to the last 12 months. This means there has been a lot of progress on the Otago Central maps which are nearing completion. However having…
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New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – August 2022
During the month of August, work has been carried out on Volumes 9 (Midland Line) and 11 (Main South Line), the former in order to inform a field trip planned into the area late this year or early next year; and the latter to push ahead with the completion of this volume. In fact, in…