Category: Stillwater Ngakawau Line
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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…
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NZRM Volumes: Volume 7 (Midland Line / West Coast)
NZRM Volume 7 covers all railways on the West Coast of the South Island and the Midland Line between the West Coast and Canterbury. There is approximately 500 km of mainline trackage within this volume. As at July 2023 only a part of Volume 7 has been fully mapped and this article will be updated…
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New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – November 2022
Work has continued at a renewed pace over the past month to move things along in the Project back to the speed of development which has been more typical prior to the last 12 months. This means there has been a lot of progress on the Otago Central maps which are nearing completion. However having…
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NZRM Update This Week
This week, Stage 1 of the NZ Rail Maps Web Maps will be completed. At the time of publishing this blog, Volume 11 has been completed and is being checked for completeness, whilst Volumes 7 and 8 are currently being added to the webmaps and will be completed over the next day or two. Apart…
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Stillwater Ngakawau Line [0A]: Volume 8 Progress Report 1
Last time anything got written on this blog about Stillwater-Ngakawau Line or Volume 8 was more than two years ago. Volume 8 is going to be like all of the other volumes, completed this year in some form, and being in the South Island will be a higher priority than anything in the North Island.…
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Stillwater Ngakawau Line [19]: Seddonville Branch & maps completed
Having finished drawing the maps of this route here are some maps of different areas to finish this series of posts. Some of these have minor errors in them that have been corrected in the maps but I haven’t regenerated these images. This one is specifically of the Charming Creek Mine tramway which is now…
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Stillwater Ngakawau Line [18]: Finishing off the SNL
It’s obvious that things have slowed down a little bit lately. This has been due to having to address some unplanned issues elsewhere. Whilst there is room for some regret that the work slows down during these times, it’s fortunate that I have got some leeway with the dates when I originally thought that the…
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Stillwater Ngakawau Line [17A]: Westport Harbour and Cape Foulwind Branch
Whilst I have taken a break from this for a few weeks to draw the Nelson Section maps, I am now back into it and pushing the maps up to the 150 km peg just beyond Waimangaroa. But that part will have to wait until the next post, right now this post is about the…
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Stillwater Ngakawau Line [16]: Holcim Cement Siding
Holcim Cement (previously Milburn Cement and NZ Cement) has had a major presence in Westport for more than 50 years. It built a cement works at Cape Foulwind and used rail transport and coastal shipping to move the finished product around New Zealand. In the last 10 years the works have been wound down in…
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Stillwater Ngakawau Line [15]: Cascade
Cascade is the westernmost station within the Buller Gorge area, being 5.7 km east of Te Kuha. As such it was opened as part of the Westport Section, although Te Kuha was the railhead of the public network at this time and east of there the line was a construction section under the control of…