Category: North Island Main Trunk
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MSL Branches [2E]: Methven Branch 5 / Otago Central / Wellington-Tawa
This is really just a quick catchup as I have been busy with various things and not much actual map work has been done in the last few days. On Friday morning I had a trip into Christchurch Archives to look at Methven Branch stuff. As they are only open half days and have been…
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Wairarapa Line [0B]: Volume 6 Progress Update 2
Over the past few weeks we have produced some maps for the NIMT and Wairarapa Lines. The NIMT work has reached to Tawa, and the Wairarapa Line to Featherston. This is the limit of what will be mapped on those routes at this stage. I am finishing off some maps for Tawa Historical Society for…
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North Island Main Trunk [5]: Wellington Station 2
These three views are the same area of Wellington station yard. From 1900, 1938 and 2014. The turntable nearer Thorndon Quay was the one used by the WMR at its depot site.
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North Island Main Trunk [4]: Wellington Station History
While I am at this very moment creating the map tiles (and will have them finished tonight) for the Tawa end of Johnsonville-Tawa, here is some detail of the history of Wellington Station as depicted on a map. (The tiles for J-T at the Tawa end have taken longer to create not because of the…
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North Island Main Trunk [3]: Johnsonville-Tawa 3
Well time for another update on this section. The section of the deviation and former alignment at the Tawa end is covered by this post as I have spent the past few days completing the aerial photo mosaic for Tawa. It still has at this time to be masked and then turned into map tiles…
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North Island Main Trunk [2]: Johnsonville-Tawa 2
Time for a quick update on progress with this. I had hoped to be further along with this process but the work needed on the big aerial image mosaics (there is one with 17 layers for the Johnsonville end and a similar or bigger one for the Tawa end) took a very long time to…
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North Island Main Trunk [1]: Johnsonville-Tawa 1
The NIMT is not an area I was planning to work on in the near future but there has been an enquiry about this section of the former NIMT route, so I am taking a look at the maps I have of it. First thing is to download the LDS aerial photos of the area…
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MSL Part 5, Onehunga, Palmerston North
Well now that I have checked to see what aerial coverage exists in Canterbury Maps I have been fortunate to discover full coverage of Rakaia in 1974. I am now considering mapping the rail yards as the quality of this is very good. Burnham and Rolleston were also well covered in the same run of…