Category: Wairarapa Line
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Wairarapa Line [0W]: Volume 6 Progress Update 23
Welcome to Volume 6 Progress Update 23. Over the past couple of days we’ve been working on the Rimutaka Incline Section from Kaitoke through to Featherston. We now have complete aerial photos from 1943 and some other bits to work with. This is a reasonably straightforward task to complete but does require a bit of…
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Wairarapa Line [0V]: Volume 6 Progress Update 22
So we’ve taken a couple of decisions over the last few days. The key decision that relates to this volume, Volume 6, is to do with the “Western Hutt Section”, which is our name for the original rail corridor from Petone to Haywards on the west bank of the Hutt River. Like the Rimutaka Incline…
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Wairarapa Line [0U]: Volume 6 Progress Update 21
This week’s progress has got us started on the Rimutaka Incline Section going through as far as Mangaroa Tunnel. We’re now working on the next section through to Kaitoke, and from there to Summit, Cross Creek, Pigeon Bush and eventually Featherston. Originally our timetable for this week called for us to be through to Masterton…
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Wairarapa Line [1A]: Rimutaka Deviation [1A]: Upper Hutt-Maymorn
So here is our first article specifically about the Wairarapa Line main line route. There is a lot to this route, and articles that we write about it will not follow a sequence corresponding to the geographical sequence of the line itself. This is because this corridor has had so many different parts to it…
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Wairarapa Line [7B]: Rimutaka Incline Section [1B]: Upper Hutt – Mangaroa Tunnel [2]: Mangaroa Station-Mangaroa Tunnel
So here we are with the second part of a two part series on the Upper Hutt to Mangaroa Tunnel segment of the “Rimutaka Incline Section”. In this part we look at the part of this route from the Mangaroa station to Tunnel 2 (the Mangaroa Tunnel). We will follow this with the first article…
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Wairarapa Line [7B]: Rimutaka Incline Section [1A]: Upper Hutt – Mangaroa Tunnel [1]: Upper Hutt-Mangaroa
So here is the first in a series of 5 articles looking at the “Rimutaka Incline Section”, which is an NZ Rail Maps name for the route from Upper Hutt to Featherston via the Rimutaka Incline. In this first pair of articles we are looking at the part from Upper Hutt to the Mangaroa Tunnel,…
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Wairarapa Line [7B]: Rimutaka Incline Section [0A]: Introduction
In the midst of NZ going to level 4 of COVID-19 lockdown we have continued with our progress on Volume 6 and the past few days has been spent on the “Rimutaka Incline Section” (unofficial name) from Upper Hutt as far as the second tunnel (shown as T2 on the maps and generally known as…
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Wairarapa Line [0000]: Volume 6 Research Article Series Numbering
The next article will be one of our research articles into the Wairarapa Line. We will do this one as a break from straight progress updates. We have looked back on previous articles and there was a series numbered from 1 to 9. After that there was the second of the Volume 6 Progress Updates…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020E]
Here is our fifth project development report for 2020. These reports give a general overview of the whole maps project for the year 2020. As has been outlined in previous posts in this series as well as general blog posts, we started this year on the assumption it might be possible to cover the entire…
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Wairarapa Line [0T]: Volume 6 Progress Update 20
Welcome to Volume 6 Progress Update 20. Since our last update we have completed mapping all the way to Upper Hutt and are updating online photo albums on various platforms with the newest maps. We are now going into the maps of the section from Upper Hutt to Featherston. In this section on the current…