New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Project Development

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – January 2023

    Welcome to the first project development report for 2023. With a new year coming around, it is always a good time to review the way forward for the coming 12 months. An important backdrop to this is an expectation that map production will slow in 2023 due to competing time uses. Here are the different…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – December 2022

    Here’s to the completion of another year of development of the New Zealand Rail Maps Project. This year has been unlike any other as it has seen a great many personal challenges to overcome which have produced delays and distractions throughout. Almost all of the year has been devoted to completion of Volume 11 of…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – October 2022

    During the month of October, steady progress has been made on the development of Volume 11 towards the intention of making that the next volume to be completed. Mosaic development is currently focused on the Otago Central Branch, now the Otago Central Rail Trail for the most part. This is an interesting aspect of map…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – September 2022

    During the month of September, progress on the NZRM project has been slower than expected. Nevertheless, the focus and work on Volume 11 is continuing. Mosaics are currently in production for the section of the MSL main line corridor for Oamaru to Palmerston along with all of the six branches in that section (Ngapara, Tokarahi,…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – August 2022

    During the month of August, work has been carried out on Volumes 9 (Midland Line) and 11 (Main South Line), the former in order to inform a field trip planned into the area late this year or early next year; and the latter to push ahead with the completion of this volume. In fact, in…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – July 2022

    July 2022 has seen steady if somewhat slow ongoing progress on the rail maps project. As in the previous month, the focus shifted to general maps of Christchurch City. However, some work has been done on the rail maps, most notably for Rolleston and Springfield. This took quite a lot of work to complete but…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – June 2022

    During June, the rail maps project slowed down somewhat as resources were put into creating a series of historical maps for Christchurch City for the purposes of other allied blogs, including Transport Safety Blog and Christchurch Transport Blog. This work is ongoing at the time of writing this, but in the last week of the…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – May 2022

    During the past month the Project has focused, following the mid-April field trip, on completing Volume 11 maps for the Main South Line corridor from Lyttelton to Oamaru and all branch lines thereof. Subject to the adjustment of boundaries referred to in last month’s report, Volume 11 will now start just south of Rolleston, or…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – April 2022

    Welcome to the New Zealand Rail Maps project development report for April 2022. This month the project has supported the launch of the new Transport Safety Blog NZ site. Whilst this is not directly related to the NZRM project, it is hosted on the same platform and shares common resourcing. It will focus partly on…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – March 2022

    Good evening and welcome to the project development report for March 2022. As noted last month, the current focus for the maps is in Volume 11. Maps are now complete for Ashburton, Fairton, Tinwald, and all the stations on the Springburn / Mount Somers Branch. Work will shift from here to completing the Methven Branch,…