Since our last blog post some three weeks ago, the focus has been on creating various volumes with the intention of these being uploaded on the Volumes site. Work has been going on for Volume 10, as well as parts of Volume 11, the most notable latter example being the maps which have been created… Continue reading NZ Rail Maps Volumes Site Development 2021-06
Category: Main South Line
Tokarahi Branch
The Tokarahi Branch, which branched from the Ngapara Branch at Windsor, approximately 16 km inland from Oamaru, is one of those branches we know very little about historically. The information in the fourth edition of the Quail Atlas is inaccurate, omitting a certain amount of detail about the line, which is most probably due to… Continue reading Tokarahi Branch
Fairlie Branch Stations: NZRM Stations Site Plan
As you would have seen from yesterday’s post, some information on stations of the Fairlie Branch Line was posted as a proposed series of articles. It is time consuming to produce articles such as these, the main reason why they stopped coming out a while ago, and given that a separate Stations site is being… Continue reading Fairlie Branch Stations: NZRM Stations Site Plan
Fairlie Branch Stations [1]: Racecourse – Waitawa
This post is about the stations on the Fairlie Branch and there will be two or three posts on this topic. It’s a long time since anything like this has been written on this blog (in fact all the posts of this type generally go back to Blogger days) and there isn’t any plan concerning… Continue reading Fairlie Branch Stations [1]: Racecourse – Waitawa