Category: Volume 6
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NZRM Update 2025-04-30
Webmaps have been captured for this month and are currently being uploaded to the web server. The web page has had a minor redesign and this update and the map tiles will be released tomorrow (1 May). At present the web maps only capture updates for Volumes 1 to 6 (North Island). The Project expects…
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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 2024-12-10: Volume 6, 7, 8, 9
As outlined in previous posts, Volume 6 is a priority for completion. The main part of updates to Volume 6 is to update the Wairarapa Line suburban stations with recently obtained 1951 aerial photo coverage, and to add all the current stations on the NIMT between Wellington and Palmerston North that aren’t already mosaiced. NZR…
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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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Rimutaka Deviation and Maymorn Station
The Rimutaka Deviation is a deviation of the Wairarapa Line that was built between 1948 and 1955 between Upper Hutt and Featherston. It replaced the section of track that contained the Rimutaka Incline. This section was opened in 1878 and closed in 1955. The maps below show the route in a simple route map form…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-09-10: Volume 6, Volume 10, Webmaps
Although last month it was said the Volume 10 Dunedin-Mosgiel maps had been brought to a close, this has in fact only just happened. The delay was mostly due to the need to get the Volumes section of the NZRM website accessible again, which required the menu to be reinstated at the top of each…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-02-24: Volume 1, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 9, Volume 10, Volume 11
This month’s work on New Zealand Rail Maps has covered a range of different areas. Work completed includes the following: Nothing to say about webmaps this time.
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-11-25: Volume 6
Work on maps recently has been focused on Volume 6. In the 1960s the NIMT between Porirua and Plimmerton was doubled, electrified and realigned. Whilst mapping has been done on this section before, it needed to be redone to make it easier to overlap the mosaics produced from Wellington to Porirua which are in a…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-11-06: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 6
Work on maps recently has been undertaken in the area of Taneatua, which is part of Volume 3. Aerials of Taneatua Station obtained some time ago were used to create a comprehensive set of maps from the old Taneatua overbridge as far as the station yard. This also included the Peketahi combined bridge in part,…