Category: Main South Line
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MSL Timaru-Glenavy [0A]: Intro 1
For our series of articles on the Main South Line we will break the corridor up into sections and these sections are chosen mostly on prominent stations but also in this case a geographic boundary. Glenavy is on the north bank of the Waitaki river which is the historical boundary between the provinces of Otago…
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MSL Rolleston-Timaru [0B]: Intro 2
So as of today we are back to doing the Main South Line and we are doing it for the same reason as the MNL corridor we just did the aerial imagery of. To free up some disk space with a lot of downloads, and also to have the complete corridor and set of aerial…
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MSL Rolleston-Timaru [0A]: Intro 1
With this particular article I am making it clear I am working towards Volume 11 as a major effort to get something that is actually going to be completed as a volume as soon as possible. This will not be a continuous effort throughout the year but it will be a major focus for the…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [0B]: Christchurch-Hornby Intro
Following on from recent efforts to speed up mosaic production, due to having discovered the best way to combine multiple stations or a continuous length of corridor into one Gimp project, I have started doing this with the MSL around Christchurch. Yesterday and part of today has been spent combining several smaller projects into a…
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MSL Dunedin-Mosgiel [1B]: Dunedin Station 2: Depot Sidings 1972
Continuing from the previous maps of the OETT sidings at Dunedin Station in the 1980s, here are some views of a rail depot on the east side of Dunedin Station yard. I am not sure exactly what this depot was used for, probably way and works or signals. The depot area extended from Thomas Burns…
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MSL Dunedin-Mosgiel [1A]: Dunedin Station 1: OETT Sidings 1988
These interesting images come from a colour Retrolens survey dated 28 February 1988. Although I have georeferenced this imagery it is of insufficient quality to be used for map making purposes. The reasons for this are that it was shot at a very low altitude, only 2000 feet, and therefore must have used a very…
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MSL Dunedin-Mosgiel [0F]: Intro 6
This has been a long and drawn out map mosaic project as reflected in the number of introductory posts for this series that have been produced while pulling it together. I thought here I would talk about some of the challenges relating to this set of maps and some of the others done around the…
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MSL Dunedin-Mosgiel [0E]: Intro 5
Yesterday I started to extract layers from the maps for Dunedin and have 1942, 1972, 1985 and 2013 to play with. Today I found a couple of errors which I have fixed, and also added 1985/1986 layers to Kensington. This includes a 1986 survey of Hillside Workshops which shows the beginning of singling of the…
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MSL Dunedin-Mosgiel [0D]: Intro 4
Dunedin-Mosgiel map mosaics have been completed with the addition of historical maps of the Mosgiel area. After this was done, the entire set of mosaics was reviewed and it was found three more pieces needed to be added in Dunedin. These were near the Water of Leith railway bridge where there were gaps in both…
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MSL Dunedin-Mosgiel [0C]: Intro 3
This is a quick update to show where we are up to with the Dunedin to Mosgiel mapping project I am undertaking at the moment. This is getting to be fairly comprehensive, bringing together maps that incorporate quite detailed coverage of practically all of the stations along the routes, as well as older historical views…