Category: Volume 7
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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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Ross Station, Ross Branch
As it may be known, the bridge at Ross crossing the Totara River, which still stands more than 40 years after the line closed, and which recently has been used by the West Coast Wilderness cycle trail, was recently closed due to safety concerns. The bridge has not been well maintained and may have to…
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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 Progress Report 2023-10-17: NIMT, ECMT, Midland Line, Project Files
Since the last update more work has been done in Volumes 2 and 4, specifically sections of the North Island Main Trunk which are in both these volumes, and Volume 3, specifically the Taneatua Branch. Work is now returning to Volume 7 to progress the release of the complete Midland Line section with all branches…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-09-13: North Island Main Trunk, Midland Line, Webmaps
In the past week or so, the main work on New Zealand Rail Maps has been focused in the area of the North Island Main Trunk railway. With the receipt of a fresh batch of aerial images believed to originate from a New Zealand Railways Corporation’s official corridor aerial survey of the central NIMT, dated…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-13A: Formats, Views, Webmaps
So a little bit of detail got left out of the last report, this one is a supplementary. The work that is important at the moment that isn’t tied specifically to the Midland Line is in two areas: So these areas are all important to the ongoing maps project work and it has been determined…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-13: Midland Line
Since the field testing on August 5th and the subsequent report on map formats for future testing, no substantial work of any nature has been done on the maps. There has been a small change in the GPS files that are available for download from the Volume 7 page. The full set of GPS locations…