Here’s the third part of an article series about three railway stations on the outskirts of Gisborne, the names of which all start with M. This post specifically relates to Makaraka, a station at the end of the Makaraka Branch, which is the first 3.5 km of the old Moutohora Branch. Makaraka is the second…

As we are getting into the more intensive research around Gisborne railways, we keep discovering new information, and so this series of articles has been extended further. We originally planned three parts, but we currently predict five, possibly more if needed. The main reason for extension is discovering more information about stations in the Gisborne…

It’s time we started posting substantive content about the PNGL in separate titled articles, rather than in progress updates. And so this first article in a series about three peripheral stations close to Gisborne, has been grabbed out of a progress update and made into an article of its own. The remaining parts are close…

We are pushing on with all possible speed to complete this volume of maps, but some late changes have meant that the maps for the Makaraka Branch have had to be redrawn for the second time this week. This means the series of maps for this line have been generated three times in total over…

Well after our announcement earlier in the week of further great progress being expected, things slowed down a lot due to other commitments, the result being the maps are not finished by the end of the week (i.e. today). However we do have all map tiles completed for tracing and are steadily pushing ahead with…