Here are just a couple of quick shots of Cross Creek. These have not been converted to tiles because the entire mosaic project is for Summit to Pigeon Bush as well as Rimutaka Loop and it needs more aerial photos that I couldn’t get today because there were some issues with the Retrolens site. First…

These maps aren’t complete sets like the previous ones and they haven’t been marked up with detail like the maps generally would be. The reason for this is I am just working as fast as I can to get the rest of the Rimutaka detail done before I need to go and catch up some…

This post contains a large number of maps because there are also some from 1951 and 1958, which are the periods immediately before and after the opening of the Rimutaka Tunnel deviation. Using the WTT data I have obtained the mileages that should be the correct ones for Mangaroa through to Pigeon Bush. It is…

So here are first draft maps for Upper Hutt to Mangaroa. There are a few things to add and fix up before eventually releasing them. Upper Hutt station has changed a lot in 70 years. The turntable is long gone, the King St level crossing closed many years ago and the yard tracks rather than…

Haywards to Silverstream is interesting because of various route changes. Haywards was originally reached from the first route of the Wairarapa Line up the western side of the Hutt Valley via Lower Hutt, Melling and Belmont. In February 1954 the Wairarapa Line was deviated to the eastern side of the valley so that Haywards (Manor…

So now I have the complete set of aerial coverage for the Hutt Valley route here are some samples showing what these locations looked like in 1939/41. Whilst continuing with some stuff around the Wellington area I need to shift my focus back to the South Island so there won’t be much more along this…

Well we have been relatively quiet over the past week as I have thrown a lot of resources into the Hutt Valley line, which looked very different in 1939. The line was opened to Waterloo in 1927, but was not further extended to Haywards until the mid 1950s, when it took over as the main…

Well the last couple of days have been work in downloading the aerial photography needed to do the Gracefield Branch. This is split up into three sections: Woburn station, Hutt Park station and Gracefield station. At the moment I have completed a mosaic for Hutt Park and am working on the mosaics for Woburn and…

Since I did a bit of Wellington station last month I have shifted my interest to Lower Hutt and various areas to be covered there. One of the first will be the Gracefield Branch and Hutt Workshops and right now I am downloading background aerial photography at high resolution of Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt…