New Zealand Rail Maps Project
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Ross Station, Ross Branch
As it may be known, the bridge at Ross crossing the Totara River, which still stands more than 40 years after the line closed, and which recently has been used by the West Coast Wilderness cycle trail, was recently closed due to safety concerns. The bridge has not been well maintained and may have to…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-08-18: Volume 10, Volume 12
This month the work on Dunedin-Mosgiel maps in Volume 10 has been brought to a close, and a quick investigation has been done with sample maps for the Tuatapere-Orawia Branch. This Southland line originated at Makarewa (12 km north of Invercargill on the Kingston Branch) with the first 28 km to Riverton opened in 1879,…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-07-17: Volume 10
This month the work on Volume 10 specifically for Dunedin to Mosgiel is being brought to a close. Part of this work is to produce some historical maps for an article appearing in the NZ Railway Observer. At the same time a complete set of maps will be produced for the section which will be…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-06-30: Volume 10
Progress on NZ Rail Maps has been slow during the past month, but the Volume 10 work needed for Dunedin to Mosgiel is practically completed, however about a week of work is still required to generate some maps from this. A hardware upgrade has just been completed on the map production computer so the Volume…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-05-25: Volume 10
Well our apologies for such a long time since the previous report. Work has been slowed somewhat in the current month, but is proceeding satisfactorily and some hardware upgrades have been performed on the Project’s computers to increase production speed for both mosaics and maps. The main effort in recent weeks has been in Volume…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-03-30: Volume 10, Volume 11
This month’s report highlights progress mainly in Volumes 10 and 11. Volume 10 work has been on completing a set of maps of the Dunedin-Mosgiel section. But the majority of work has been completed in Volume 11 and has focused around the Roxburgh Branch. Here the goal has been to complete a full set of…
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-02-24: Volume 1, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 9, Volume 10, Volume 11
This month’s work on New Zealand Rail Maps has covered a range of different areas. Work completed includes the following: Nothing to say about webmaps this time.
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-01-29: Volume 10, Volume 1, Volume 4
Apologies for such a long time without an update but it is that time of year. At any rate after taking a break for a few weeks a lot of work has been happening on various aspects of the project. Webmaps are not getting a mention just now because there is still a lot of…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-12-21: Volume 10, Volume 12, Webmaps
So work is still happening to prepare for a webmaps update, as previously flagged. This is running a bit behind because we are all so busy at this time of year, of course. As such, it may be into next year before the site is actually updated, but it will still be flagged as a…
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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…