Category: Wairarapa Line
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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 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 2023-10-17A: 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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Wairarapa Line: Greytown Railway Station
Greytown was a small urban station at the end of the 5 km Greytown Branch, which came off the Wairarapa Line at Woodside (per the previous post about Woodside Station). For more details of the branch see that post. Greytown was briefly the railhead of the Wairarapa Line and the branch was chained as the…
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Wairarapa Line: Woodside Railway Station
Woodside Railway Station started off its life as the junction for the 5 km branch to Greytown. It came about that when the Public Works Department (PWD), later on the Ministry of Works and Development or MOWD, which was responsible for constructing the early railways of New Zealand, put together the plans for the Wellington…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-23: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line, Palmerston North Gisborne Line, North Island Main Trunk
This week on New Zealand Rail Maps the overwhelming focus has been on the migration of the project’s websites to a new hosting platform. This is now fully in operation both for this blog and for the webmaps. The new hosting solution is provided in New Zealand, rather than in California, and should probably result…
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NZRM Volumes: Volume 6 (Wellington-Palmerston North-Wairarapa Railways)
Volume 6 of New Zealand Rail Maps covers the following sections of line: Wairarapa Line Main Line Corridor Both the North Island Main Trunk and the Wairarapa Line start at the platforms at Wellington Railway Station. This is an interesting historical ambiguity from 1937 in that the lines before that started at the individual stations…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-07: Wairarapa Line, Midland Line
Since the last report work has been continuing on the Wairarapa Line maps with new coverage added for Featherston, Carterton and Masterton. However there is no timeframe for when the new material might be added into Volume 6, and previous plans to draw in historical deviation routes for the Rimutaka Incline are currently not scheduled…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-05-22: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line, Webmaps
This week much effort went into maps of the Wairarapa Line, updating the coverage using 2021 high resolution maps of the urban areas (Featherston, Carterton and Masterton plus some other parts). Partly this is for the Wairarapa level crossings programme community response and partly so that the next update of Volume 6 can make use…