Category: Volume 0
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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NZRM Volume 11: Working Timetable Distances
It has been determined that it is useful and appropriate for NZ Rail Maps to use miles and chains as a measurement unit for the purposes of maps produced in the project. All imperial distances for Volume 11, which covers the Main South Line from Lyttelton to Wingatui and all of its branches, will now…
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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…
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New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – November 2021
This past month the focus has remained on Volume 2 (NIMT) which is a massive task, and with competing time demands since everyone is so busy at this time of the year, timeframes have been stretched out beyond what has been previously expected. However, a major reason in things slowing down this month was time…
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New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – October 2021
Good morning and welcome to the New Zealand Rail Maps project development report for October 2021. During the past month the main focus for the project has been on completing Volume 2, a very in depth process given the length of the most important of our main line corridors, between Auckland and Wellington. Sections finished…
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New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – September 2021
Good morning and welcome to the project development report for September 2021. In the past month, the main focus has shifted to the North Island Main Trunk volume, Volume 2. When this is completed it is expected to become the first volume that will appear on the NZ Rail Maps Volumes site. The Volumes site…