New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Palmerston North Gisborne Line

  • Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0E]: Volume 5 Progress Update 5

    Yesterday we wrote a quick update on Volume 5. Today we are taking a more indepth look at what we can do to complete the update of this volume covering the Palmerston North Gisborne Line (currently only open to Napier). Yesterday’s inspiration came from BERL’s new report on reopening the Wairoa to Gisborne section of…

  • Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0D]: Volume 5 Progress Update 4

    Again it’s some time since we blogged about the PNGL and the Volume 5 maps, a year in actuality. We are planning to work on getting Volume 5 finished in 2020 along with all the other volumes but the timeframe when this work will actually be done has not yet been scheduled within 2020. This…

  • Project Development Report [2019F]

    Since last time there has been some progress on Volume 1 but not as much as I had expected. There have been delays for two main reasons, both of them related to the migration to version 3.6 of Qgis. These are simply migrating computers to a new version of Debian, and then discovering it caused…

  • 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…

  • Palmerston North Gisborne Line [3C]: Five Generations of Gisborne

    Gisborne is the terminus of the Palmerston North Gisborne Line, a 390 km route from Palmerston North via Woodville, Napier and Wairoa. The route was originally planned as part of a railway from Auckland to Gisborne via Opotiki; the railway was completed from Auckland to Taneatua as the East Coast Main Trunk and from Gisborne…

  • Project development: Work programme for 2019

    In my last few posts I have talked about the PNGL mapping I am working on. I have just about completed downloading the base aerial photography, and are working on mosaics for almost every station on the line. This is Volume 5 of the 12 volume map series and the PNGL and its branches is…

  • Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0C]: PNGL maps update project [3]

    The most complex task of assembling a collection of aerial photography to support a NZ Rail Maps project is almost complete. This one is extremely complex because it has been necessary to access multiple generations of base aerial photography for the same location, simply because after six years of closure much of the current aerials…

  • Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0B]: PNGL maps update project [2]

    The PNGL map revision project is currently making good progress and has been the subject of a lot of work over the past few days. I am now in the process of downloading the base aerial photography for the entire route from Napier to Gisborne. This will be followed at a later date by obtaining…

  • Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0A]: PNGL maps revision project commencement

    It’s been four years since I published the maps for this section (Volume 8 in the old volume numbering scheme) and having road tripped the entire length of the route in June this year it’s time for both updates to the core maps and a more user friendly format for use in the field, especially…

  • Palmerston North Gisborne Line [3B]: Gisborne City 2

    Here are a couple of views of some of the sidings in Gisborne, many of which are now non existent. Apart from these we also have the main yard, the sidings on the Makaraka Branch, the wharf sidings and the ones for the other stations in the area which will be drawn up in due…