Category: North Auckland Line
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North Auckland Line [0V]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 38, 2020
Apologies for failing to produce these posts for the previous two weeks. Since the last update the following has been completed: Maps drawn of Portland Station, the site of the Wilson Portland Cement Company, now the only cement manufacturer in NZ, which once had its own private railway network and numerous locomotives it owned to…
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North Auckland Line [0U]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 35, 2020
Well last week we took things a bit more slowly and so we got only a little bit of maps work done. Whilst we are still just as busy with other stuff this week, better use of our time means a lot more mapping will be completed over the coming days. Currently, mosaics are being…
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North Auckland Line [0T]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 34, 2020
So the maps are now completed to Waiotira, which is 179 km from Westfield and at the junction of the Dargaville Branch from the NAL. In the last three weeks we drew the maps from Helensville, a track mileage of around 115 km which is quite a good achievement, but not as fast as we…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020H]: Development Schedule Latest Revision
Over time we have looked into different map development schedules. We first attempted about two years ago to prioritise producing a Basic version of all 12 volumes as a high priority to be completed within months. That however has been re-examined a few times. We have looked at different compromises between getting the maps finished…
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North Auckland Line [0S]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 33, 2020
Since our last report we have advanced the base maps to Kaiwaka at about 140 km from Auckland, which is practically half the entire distance from Westfield to Otiria. This represents good progress under our current rate of resourcing for map production. At the time of our last post we had just completed maps up…
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North Auckland Line [0S]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 31, 2020
This week we completed maps to Helensville and posted maps on the group list of the Helensville station, which was a major freight yard between Waitakere and Wellsford on the North Auckland Line (65.82 km from Westfield). This was also the site of an engine depot until about the late 1960s, probably when steam locomotives…
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North Auckland Line [0R]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 28, 2020
This past week we achieved more than expected with the maps, but only advanced progress over a total of around 5 km of the route – from Mt Albert to New Lynn. The latter has been the focus of considerable research in itself. This has involved getting hold of 2007 and 2009 historical imagery of…
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North Auckland Line [0Q]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 27, 2020
Good evening. Last week we changed our planned schedule for map production and as a result, we have completed only a few kilometres of the NAL rail corridor, from Mt Eden to near Mt Albert. The reason for this is that other work has taken priority. We have determined that another pause of about a…
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North Auckland Line [0P]: Weekly Progress Report 2020-06-20
So as you can see from the heading, the plan is these progress reports on the blog will be made weekly. The reports made on a daily basis are posted to our email list nzrailmaps@groups.io. One of the biggest changes made this week has been to alter the way we use Facebook. Instead of content…
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North Auckland Line [0O]: Volume 1 Progress Update 15
In our last update a few days ago, we outlined how the project development is to be documented from here, with daily update posts, currently known as “daily diaries”, which will be posted directly to our Facebook page and our email list. The first few days have gone well, but we have only covered 6…