Category: Main South Line
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [4]
Good evening. Since the last post nearly 2 weeks ago work has focused on completion of the aerial mosaics, and with the ongoing work taking a lot of effort, these mosaics are still a wee way off completion. The current rate of progress is: From Heathcote to Addington and from Hornby to Templeton on MSL…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [3]
This post is a series on the development of a new web maps preview for the Greater Christchurch area. The creation of this preview is currently intended to be used to promote the utility of the maps for the Greater Christchurch area, to give access to historical and current day information about the Greater Christchurch,…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [2]
Last time we talked about the process of developing a preview for Greater Christchurch and it was hoped we could have it ready in a few days. Now we are a week into this process and although good progress has been made on this task, it’s been necessary to juggle whether to spend time getting…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch
Good afternoon. Here is this week’s update summary for the NZ Rail Maps Project. So far, in order to aid the development model for the new web site, we have created two different development previews: Volume 1 (North Auckland Line) and Volume 6 (Wairarapa Line). These have reflected several development levels proposed for the maps:…
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Dunedin City Council Reneges On Mothballing of Dunedin Railways, Now Pushing Ahead With Winding Up.
As we all know, a few months ago Dunedin Railways was closed down, but the Dunedin City Council voted to mothball it rather than wind it up completely. This, however, seems to have been just a ploy, as DCC is now calling for expressions of interest for people who want to buy the company’s assets.…
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Project Diary 2019-12-19: Greater Christchurch Maps Update
In the last few weeks our research has continued of Greater Christchurch maps, branching out into looking into railway housing in Heathcote and Lyttelton. The development of railway housing in large cities is naturally very different from small towns, as these two examples show. We plan also to take a closer look at railway housing…
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Heathcote Pumping Station Siding & Ferrymead Railway Siding [2]
Following on from last month’s post about the Heathcote Pumping Station siding, here is an updated map showing the Heathcote Expressway cycleway that is expected to be built along this corridor within the near future. It will cross over the Ferrymead Railway siding and then follow the Main South Line corridor to Truscotts Road.
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Railway Housing in Greater Christchurch [2A]: Lyttelton 1
Following on from the discussion in the last article about railway housing around Lyttelton, here are some aerial photos with labelling showing where some of the railway housing was located there. This is preliminary as more research is needed to identify all of the railway properties across Lyttelton as well as in this specific area.…
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Railway Housing in Greater Christchurch [1]: Introduction
As we all know, when NZR developed their network, staffing requirements especially in remote locations often required housing to be provided. There are a number of townships in NZ where the amount of railway staff housing was significant compared to the overall community, including several railway towns – Otira on the Midland Line being one…
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Lyttelton: Then and Now
Here is a much anticipated post about Lyttelton. However, it is just a brief comparison over 50 years. More in-depth of Lyttelton will follow as soon as we have completed archival research in a few weeks’ time. Above: Lyttelton Port 1967. Below: Lyttelton Port 2015.