New Zealand Rail Maps Project
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-07-21: Midland Line
After another slow week a lot of work has nevertheless been done to get the mosaics of Springfield finished and imported into the GIS. This has now been completed and adjustments are being made as needed to the maps to address any changes needed. Using the 1976 aerial images (official New Zealand Railways survey of…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-07-17: Midland Line
Over the past ten days work has progressed on detailing and producing the maps of the mainline section of the Midland Line. Towards the end of last week progress reached Springfield at 48 km from Rolleston, therefore a total of 345 maps were produced over five days for 46 km of actual track distance. In…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-07-07: Midland Line
This week, progress in NZRM maps has been slow for a variety of reasons. One of these reasons has been putting time aside to write a report about NZRM for the NZ Cartographic Society’s quadrennial report to the International Cartographic Cartographic Association which will be presented at ICCA’s conference next month. The report submitted for…
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Wairarapa Line: Greytown Railway Station
Greytown was a small urban station at the end of the 5 km Greytown Branch, which came off the Wairarapa Line at Woodside (per the previous post about Woodside Station). For more details of the branch see that post. Greytown was briefly the railhead of the Wairarapa Line and the branch was chained as the…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-30: Midland Line, Volume Reorganisation
This week the main work done in the Project has been in the Midland Line. The mosaic of Greymouth in 1945 was completed and has been used in mapping. It is fair to say the planned release of Volume 9 is a bit behind schedule. For reasons explained below, the release of what has been…
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Wairarapa Line: Woodside Railway Station
Woodside Railway Station started off its life as the junction for the 5 km branch to Greytown. It came about that when the Public Works Department (PWD), later on the Ministry of Works and Development or MOWD, which was responsible for constructing the early railways of New Zealand, put together the plans for the Wellington…
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NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-23: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line, Palmerston North Gisborne Line, North Island Main Trunk
This week on New Zealand Rail Maps the overwhelming focus has been on the migration of the project’s websites to a new hosting platform. This is now fully in operation both for this blog and for the webmaps. The new hosting solution is provided in New Zealand, rather than in California, and should probably result…
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NZRM Volumes: Volume 6 (Wellington-Palmerston North-Wairarapa Railways)
Volume 6 of New Zealand Rail Maps covers the following sections of line: Wairarapa Line Main Line Corridor Both the North Island Main Trunk and the Wairarapa Line start at the platforms at Wellington Railway Station. This is an interesting historical ambiguity from 1937 in that the lines before that started at the individual stations…
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NZRM Volumes: Volume 5 (Palmerston North Gisborne Line)
Volume 5 of New Zealand Rail Maps covers the Palmerston North Gisborne Line and all its branches. The sub volumes for each part of Volume 5 and the areas they cover are as follows. PNGL Main Line Corridor Volume 5 coverage of the Palmerston North Gisborne Line starts at 7 km just beyond Whakarongo station.…
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NZ Rail Maps Web Site Migration
Currently work is under way to migrate the NZ Rail Maps website to a new hosting platform. This can be expected to be the last post on this blog before the migration occurs. The webmaps site is being left on its current hosting platform but with a new site address which is www.nzrailwebmaps.nz . This…