New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Palmerston North Gisborne Line

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-11-25: Volume 6

    Work on maps recently has been focused on Volume 6. In the 1960s the NIMT between Porirua and Plimmerton was doubled, electrified and realigned. Whilst mapping has been done on this section before, it needed to be redone to make it easier to overlap the mosaics produced from Wellington to Porirua which are in a…

  • 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 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 Volumes: Volume 5 (Palmerston North Gisborne Line)

    Volume 5 of New Zealand Rail Maps covers the Palmerston North Gisborne Line and all its branches. The sub volumes for each part of Volume 5 and the areas they cover are as follows. PNGL Main Line Corridor Volume 5 coverage of the Palmerston North Gisborne Line starts at 7 km just beyond Whakarongo station.…

  • 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 2023-04-21: 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…

  • New Aerial Photos For Palmerston North

    NZRM has received a supply of historical aerial maps of Palmerston North from Linz and is currently adding them to Volume 2 of NZ Rail Maps. Those which have arrived in the past week are as follows: At this time NZRM is waiting to receive a number of additional aerial surveys from 1941, 1942, 1945…

  • New “Gabrielle” Aerial Photography Released from Linz

    Linz is currently releasing new aerial photography covering disaster hit areas of the North Island. So far there are two layers available: NZRM would hope to see more at a better resolution, however all of the above will be made use of to the greatest extent possible especially the higher resolution content around Napier. This…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – December 2021

    In the past month the key focus of the project has switched to updating Volumes 5 and 6 for the Volumes site, which will be revamped and launched under a new format on 1 January 2022. Volume 6 has received the higher priority because of the recent opening of the double track extension in the…