Since our last update we’ve made a lot of progress on all the mosaics which are in six separate projects. We have extracted tiles so far for Wellington to Ngauranga. Whilst that doesn’t sound like a lot, the mosaics for the other areas have practically all been completed except for Featherston-Masterton and the Greytown Branch…

In the last few days we’ve been working on historical maps for Upper Hutt to Featherston. This takes in the old railway over the Remutakas that was bypassed by the Rimutaka Deviation with the big tunnel in 1955. Although this seems to suggest a great rate of progress, we in actuality still have a fair…

We have now completed the 1969/1970 mosaics for the entire line from Wellington to Upper Hutt. We still have to take a look at the 1930s/1940s mosaics for the old western line from Melling to Haywards which will be our next task. Also we will be starting work shortly on the section from Upper Hutt…

Another day, another update report for Volume 6. Work has now moved onto mosaics for the sections from Waterloo to Haywards, which we hope will include some low quality coverage of the western route (the original railway from Petone to Haywards, which closed in 1954) as well as the current main line. We are also…

Since our last update we have completed the historical maps for Petone-Lower Hutt, Petone-Waterloo and Woburn-Seaview (Gracefield Branch) using in all cases what areas we had previously covered with the earliest available aerial photography from the 1930s, and adding in the big NZR survey of all these sections from 1969. In fact there are NZR…

Since our last update we’ve spent a lot of time creating and updating mosaics for the historical part of the maps. We completed a set for Wellington to Ngauranga, and whilst Wellington more properly fits into Volume 2, Ngauranga is quite interesting due to the amount of changes that have occurred due to the motorway…

Last time we posted on this subject was a month ago today and it’s surprising it has taken that long to get back to Volume 6. Now that Volume 5 has been posted as detailed in our last post, we can push ahead with Volume 6 from next week, but the rest of this week…

It is quite a while since we wrote anything about the Wairarapa Line. In 2016 we posted that a map set had been completed, this was prior to bringing in the use of aerial photography. More than a year ago we had been redrawing the maps with aerial photography for the Wellington suburban area and…