New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: North Island Main Trunk

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-09-13: North Island Main Trunk, Midland Line, Webmaps

    In the past week or so, the main work on New Zealand Rail Maps has been focused in the area of the North Island Main Trunk railway. With the receipt of a fresh batch of aerial images believed to originate from a New Zealand Railways Corporation’s official corridor aerial survey of the central NIMT, dated…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-09-05: Main South Line, North Island Main Trunk, Webmaps

    Since the last update report, random work has been done on sections of the Main South Line (specifically Timaru Station Yard) and North Island Main Trunk (Ohakune-Horopito, Raetihi Branch and Marton, with a look as well at some of the stuff previously done for Mangaweka-Utiku). The focus on what is now being shared with Facebook…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-23: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line, Palmerston North Gisborne Line, North Island Main Trunk

    This week on New Zealand Rail Maps the overwhelming focus has been on the migration of the project’s websites to a new hosting platform. This is now fully in operation both for this blog and for the webmaps. The new hosting solution is provided in New Zealand, rather than in California, and should probably result…

  • NZRM Volumes: Volume 6 (Wellington-Palmerston North-Wairarapa Railways)

    Volume 6 of New Zealand Rail Maps covers the following sections of line: Wairarapa Line Main Line Corridor Both the North Island Main Trunk and the Wairarapa Line start at the platforms at Wellington Railway Station. This is an interesting historical ambiguity from 1937 in that the lines before that started at the individual stations…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-16: Midland Line, Palmerston North Gisborne Line, NIMT

    Work is currently continuing to update the Midland Line maps. Due to other distractions, map work is fairly slow at the moment and could be stopped altogether for the last two weeks of June to allow catchup in other areas. At the moment the main area of progress is around Greymouth. Work has also been…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-05-22: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line, Webmaps

    This week much effort went into maps of the Wairarapa Line, updating the coverage using 2021 high resolution maps of the urban areas (Featherston, Carterton and Masterton plus some other parts). Partly this is for the Wairarapa level crossings programme community response and partly so that the next update of Volume 6 can make use…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-05-15: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line

    In the past week progress has been made mainly in the Rapahoe Branch in relation to Volume 9, the Midland Line corridor. This means that completion of the Rapahoe Branch maps is now much closer to completion, with work now shifting onto finishing the adjacent Rewanui Branch adding the final historical coverage. At this stage…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…