Category: Main South Line
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Project Diary 2019-11-15: Greater Christchurch Maps Key Milestone
We are pleased to announce a key milestone has been reached in the Greater Christchurch maps we are producing as part of the NZ Rail Maps project. We have now completed the historic aerial photo mosaic projects for all of Greater Christchurch, that is, the following four sections of railway: Eastward: Main South Line from…
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Heathcote Pumping Station Siding & Ferrymead Railway Siding [1]
Recent research has turned up the existence of a siding to the pumping station in Scruttons Road, which is just behind Ferrymead Heritage Park. In fact it is right where the Ferrymead Railway’s siding goes off the Main South Line. The date of when the siding was established is unclear, but the file starts at…
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Project Diary 2019-11-02: Christchurch Maps
Our first blog post for November. Map production this week has been limited to a complex fix for a problem discovered in the Heathcote-Ferrymead maps for 1985. Trying to align two different rail lines in four places simultaneously can be very complex. Cutting the Main South Line out through the back of Ferrymead is a…
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Project DIary 2019-10-26: Christchurch Maps
It’s been another busy week of gathering research information and a lot of work pulling out map tiles. As noted in previous posts, we spend a lot of time each week, currently around 6 hours, researching all the stations in the Greater Christchurch area. This will involve viewing around 50 files a week and copying…
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Project Diary 2019-10-03: Christchurch Maps
Well here’s another update, and promises, promises, promises…. the last week has slowed things down a bit due to having to deal with other issues, but we are back up to speed now. Plus there have been more than a few issues with Gimp that caused crashes, meaning having to go back and redo stuff…
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Project Diary 2019-09-24: Main South Line
The southern most section of the Main South Line, from Templeton to Burnham, for the Greater Christchurch maps, has been completed in a mosaic form, with eras of historical maps varying from the early 1940s through to the year 2000. We had only intended to go as far as Rolleston, but as Burnham is just…
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Project Diary 2019-09-12: Hornby Industrial Line
As we continue assembling maps for Christchurch Transport Blog use, currently we have shifted to the Hornby Industrial Line, which is historically the section of the former Southbridge Branch from Hornby to Lincoln. It was designated as such in July 1962 after the branch was closed beyond Lincoln. In December 1967, the section of the…
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Project Diary 2019-09-07
As some will know, this week CHAT Club released their “MaRTI proposal”, which suggests the Middleton rail yards could be turned into a housing development. A couple of posts about it have appeared on Christchurch Transport Blog, but the indepth analysis hasn’t been done until the historical maps of Middleton are ready. As per usual…
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Project Diary 2019-09-03
Chat Club, a group of transport professionals that has been running rail passenger workshops in Christchurch, proposed at a seminar on Monday evening that the Middleton rail yards could be closed down and relocated further west, to enable the land occupied to be redeveloped for medium density affordable housing (1600 homes approximately). About 50 people…
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Project Diary 2019-08-31
In today’s update, we can report we have finally completed the historical map mosaics for the section of the Main South Line from Woolston to Waltham, after splitting the Gimp project into two parts to deal with persistent crashes caused by project file size. The last section to be added this morning was the historical…