New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Nelson Section

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-10-17A: Proposed Work Schedule To End of 2024

    After consideration the work schedule for the maps project from date to the end of next year is proposed as follows. The plan is to complete up to four volumes which are already well in hand and therefore only need a relatively small amount of work to complete. So all of these are in the…

  • NZRM Update This Week

    This week, Stage 1 of the NZ Rail Maps Web Maps will be completed. At the time of publishing this blog, Volume 11 has been completed and is being checked for completeness, whilst Volumes 7 and 8 are currently being added to the webmaps and will be completed over the next day or two. Apart…

  • 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…

  • Nelson Section [8]: Maps released

    As I’m a bit too busy to pump out posts about the Nelson Line in general I have just published two Flickr albums with each containing a full set of maps of the line. The maps are arranged so that they always present the route from left to right, this ensures it is very intuitive…

  • Nelson Section [7]: Belgrove-Tapawera 1

    Belgrove-Tapawera is where things slowed down a lot in the original railway construction plan. From Nelson to Belgrove took only five years. But Belgrove ended up being the railhead for nearly 20 years because of a number of factors. These were as follows: The hilly country specifically the Spooners Range made further construction westward difficult.…

  • The best ever maps of the Nelson Section – and why they are a one-off

    For the last few years I have been drawing the best ever maps of the Otago Central Railway. Right now I am drawing the best ever maps of the Nelson Section. What have both those got in common? A lot of readily available online documentation, including the all important aerial photos. Does this mean every…

  • Nelson Section [6]: Tapawera-Glenhope

    So here is a new Nelson subseries, from Tapawera to Glenhope. As I have just finished drawing the maps back to Tapawera, so it is now a good time to put these maps up on the blog. So here we are again with Glenhope, the terminus of the line from 1912-1926 and 1931-1955. There was…

  • Nelson Section [5]: Glenhope-Gowanbridge 2

    I have a lot of articles to post since I have just finished drawing the maps all the way from Glenhope through to Tapawera. So there will be a few posted over the next few days, whilst I expect the weekend will see the Tapawera to Nelson section of the maps completed, which is a…

  • Nelson Section [4]: Gowanbridge-Murchison 3

    This part was overlooked as I had forgotten I had this data available from my old Google Earth maps. When NZ Rail Maps started 10 years ago the maps were first drawn with Google Earth. This had many limitations so that is why I switched to Qgis after three years. Now with the combination of…

  • Nelson Section [3]: Glenhope-Gowanbridge 1

    Gowanbridge to Glenhope was an operational section although Gowanbridge was never formally opened, but the station was under construction and the PWD were running freight services in 1929. Kawatiri in the middle of this section was opened in 1929. The section from Glenhope to Kawatiri was first built between 1912 and 1917 when the first…