New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Palmerston North Gisborne Line

  • 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…

  • NZRM Update 2021-03-04

    Good afternoon and welcome to this week’s NZ Rail Maps Project update. As it says on the Facebook page this week’s update is a few days later than planned, normally updates come out on Mondays. The reason is that it was decided last week the update milestone would be for completing all trunk corridors in…

  • Unpalatable Truth: Shipping More Efficient Than Rail

    On July 30, 2020, The Australian newspaper published an article lamenting the rundown of the rail freight network over there, due to intense competition from road and sea haulage. Whilst road transport of freight is not cost competitive in large quantities and long distances, it works well when only a small volume is to be…