Today we have completed drawing maps all the way to Upper Hutt. We also created an email group on Groups.io for the use of those who wish to contribute to the project without using Facebook. We had anticipated some delay whilst seeking aerial coverage of the Trentham Army Camp sidings. As it eventuated, most of…

Welcome to Volume 6 Progress Update 17. Work on the maps is now well underway on the section of the Wairarapa Line from Waterloo to Upper Hutt and hopefully all the way to Masterton by the end of this week in order to have a reasonable prospect of keeping to the schedule and having the…

Since our last update we have completed drawing maps of the entire Gracefield Branch and Hutt Workshops sidings. In the process of this we added additional generations of historical aerial mosaics both for the Workshops and for Gracefield, which added about a day. These mean that for Hutt Park (the workshops) we have 1939, 1969,…

Today we can report that we have made further progress having now got onto the Gracefield Branch after completing initial mapping of the Melling Branch and the main line to Woburn, including Petone, Lower Hutt, Melling, Ava and Woburn stations. After the initial maps we remembered to look up the Valley Signals website and discovered…

Work has proceeded on he Volume 6 maps more slowly this week than in most previous weeks and although major yards like Petone aren’t too common in the Wellington suburban area, with the work on other segments further up the corridor, we are now estimating about another two weeks to complete this volume so it…

Since our last report, progress has slowed somewhat due to other commitments, and it doesn’t look very likely we will be able to keep this volume completely on track with an expected completion deadline of 10 March. This is simply due to the amount of work needed to cover in particular Wellington, and the yard…

So we have started producing the maps for Wellington to Ngauranga, which is the first 4 km approx of the NIMT and Wairarapa Line combined, as they run parallel from Wellington Junction (1.92 km) to Ngauranga before separating. After that we will just be looking at the Wairarapa Line. So currently there are nine distinct…

So we have now started producing maps from Wellington. The first maps for Wellington will not cover the full detail of the yard as that is more properly a task for Volume 2. In fact we will not display any yard tracks in these maps in Volume 6 with the possible exclusion of the ferry…