New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Midland Line

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – July 2022

    July 2022 has seen steady if somewhat slow ongoing progress on the rail maps project. As in the previous month, the focus shifted to general maps of Christchurch City. However, some work has been done on the rail maps, most notably for Rolleston and Springfield. This took quite a lot of work to complete but…

  • NZRM Update This Week

    This week, Stage 1 of the NZ Rail Maps Web Maps will be completed. At the time of publishing this blog, Volume 11 has been completed and is being checked for completeness, whilst Volumes 7 and 8 are currently being added to the webmaps and will be completed over the next day or two. Apart…

  • NZRM Update 2021-02-18

    Good morning. This week’s update is two updates combined, which accounts for it being later than usual. The reason for combining two updates is to allow the rest of this week to be focused on another part of the project whilst continuing to maintain the desired schedule of webmaps generation. As of today the webmaps…

  • Midland Line [0G]: Volume 9 Progress Report 7 (Greymouth-Ross)

    So we have spent the past few days working to make up maps for the part of the Midland Line that is mostly a branch off the main line, the branch that goes to Hokitika (Hokitika Line) and which was formerly the Ross Branch that carried on past Hokitika to Ross. From Ross there was…

  • Midland Line [0F]: Volume 9 Progress Report 6

    Last time we had a look at the Midland Line, back in August this year, route alignment was completed to Otira and some other work was being planned. However it is now a priority to make progress on completing all map volumes to a basic standard over the next 12 months (calendar year 2020), which…

  • 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…

  • Project Diary 2019-08-12

    This week we have switched back to the Christchurch area maps due to the impeding local government elections. We are currently working with several candidates and preparing material in order to assist some of their campaigns, in association with Christchurch Transport Blog. Because of this the Midland Line work has temporarily halted, although research at…

  • Midland Line [0E]: Volume 9 Progress Report 5

    This is a brief update on progress with Volume 9. Currently we have completed the route alignment as far as Otira and the details of the Otira yard tracks are being drawn in. A decision has been made to use the available aerial photography we have as far as Kotuku to draw layouts of all…

  • Midland Line [4B]: Arthurs Pass-Otira 2: MRC Summit Line 2

    Following on from last evening’s post here is the rest of the Summit to Otira route. We are assuming plans will exist for the climb up from Arthurs Pass Station to the summit as there are many plans in the Archives collection, but few of them have been scanned as yet which will make it…

  • Midland Line [4A]: Arthurs Pass-Otira Line 1: MRC Summit Line 1

    Perhaps a lesser known feature of the original plans for the Midland Line was that the Midland Railway Company proposed a summit line over Arthurs Pass rather than the Otira Tunnel that we have today. The summit line would have run close to the current highway in a number of places and it incorporated gradients…