New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Wairarapa Line

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-05-15: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line

    In the past week progress has been made mainly in the Rapahoe Branch in relation to Volume 9, the Midland Line corridor. This means that completion of the Rapahoe Branch maps is now much closer to completion, with work now shifting onto finishing the adjacent Rewanui Branch adding the final historical coverage. At this stage…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – February 2022

    Good evening and welcome to the project development report for February 2022. This month the project focus has shifted to Volumes 10 and 11, with Volume 11 getting the most attention this month. This has been done in order to complete research on branch railways around the Canterbury Region in order to inform a proposed…