Category: Project Development
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Regular and in-depth blog posts are resuming
As you could see from the blog I haven’t actually posted anything all this year. Instead I experimented with making regular posts on the project’s Facebook page but I will be blogging again now and the blog will have more detailed posts on it rather than summaries as there is plenty of interesting stuff happening…
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NZRM Update 2026-09-16
Well people, massive apologies for the lack of posts on this blog all this year. Although the blog hasn’t been updated all this time, the project has had plenty of updates which have been ongoing throughout the year. The main thing that has been happening in September is changes to NZ Rail Maps websites. The…
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NZRM Update 2025-12-06
Well people, as you can see, there hasn’t been an update on the Project in some months. This is due to several planned major events in the Project coordinator’s personal life over the past few months, one of which is still to happen in January. There has actually been a considerable amount of work happening…
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NZRM Update 2025-06-03
This month the main area of work in the maps has been parts of Volume 6, specifically Upper Hutt to Featherston, and latterly Volume 9, which is being completely reorganised, along with the replacement mosaic projects for the Methven and Springburn Branches; the original mosaics project was last heard of in 2022 and seems to…
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NZRM Update 2025-02-26
This month the main mapping work completed has been in Volume 1 where the maps of the Donnellys Crossing or Kaihu Branch have been updated. This has been undertaken with assistance from members of the NZ Rail Geography Group on groups.io which is likely to be significantly beneficial to the rest of the project as…
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NZRM Update 2025-01-22
Apologies for the long delay since the last report (which was sent out December 10 but inadvertently had an earlier date in the title). A lot has been happening with the project since then but it’s mostly been invisible. Firstly, after experimenting for a year with NZ based hosting, the entire site has been rolled…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-12-06: Review of Year’s Work
Towards the end of last year, a blog post suggested where work efforts should be directed for 2024. It referred to four volumes that were nearing completion and were hoped to be completed by the end of 2024. These were volumes 6, 7, 8 and 9. Progress has been made in a number of these…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-07-17: Volume 10
This month the work on Volume 10 specifically for Dunedin to Mosgiel is being brought to a close. Part of this work is to produce some historical maps for an article appearing in the NZ Railway Observer. At the same time a complete set of maps will be produced for the section which will be…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-05-25: Volume 10
Well our apologies for such a long time since the previous report. Work has been slowed somewhat in the current month, but is proceeding satisfactorily and some hardware upgrades have been performed on the Project’s computers to increase production speed for both mosaics and maps. The main effort in recent weeks has been in Volume…
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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…