New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: North Island Main Trunk

  • NZRM Update 2021-01-24

    Good morning. This week’s update to NZ Rail Maps consists of the following: Added NIMT as far as Waikanae to Webmaps Added Johnsonville Branch and Johnsonville-Tawa Section to Webmaps Created the Volumes subsite (accessible using the Volumes link on the menu) to hold static maps. This area will include image galleries, PDFs and GPX files.…

  • NZRM Web Maps Update 2021-01-17

    Good morning. This week’s update to the site adds new content as well as some client changes. A separate page from the main webmaps site shows the special set of aerial photos taken of the South Island East Coast following the 2016 Rotherham Earthquake. This is at a resolution of 0.2 metres per pixel and…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020D]

    So here is our latest update on the overall NZ Rail Maps project. As we made clear earlier this year, we are working on completing all 12 volumes in 2020. That is an aspirational goal and for various reasons it’s quite possible that goal won’t be met. However it is worthwhile making a serious attempt…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020C]

    So a few days ago we completed Volume 5 of NZ Rail Maps. This is not the first time we have completed a volume in any format, but it is the first volume completed in the new online format. As previously noted, the maps in this photographic format are specifically designed to be used on…

  • North Island Main Trunk [0C]: Intro 3: Hamilton Urban Area 2

    I have now completed a mosaic project to cover the area of NIMT and ECMT that is within the bounds of Horotiu, Hamilton (Frankton) and Claudelands. These are the main areas of interest that I will be mapping at some future time (unscheduled at present) with NZ Rail Maps.  Whilst the mosaic is now complete…

  • North Island Main Trunk [0B]: Intro 2: Hamilton Urban Area

    Whilst I am still drawing maps of Dunedin and this work will probably take me until the end of the month to complete, I am working on a mosaic of Hamilton Urban Area (Hamilton to Horotiu) as well. The initial focus will be the Te Rapa hump shunt yard of the 1970s. At this stage…

  • North Island Main Trunk [0A], North Auckland Line [0A]: Progress Report 1

    In accordance with the intention to develop all volumes this year, I am starting work on creating Volumes 1 and 2 today. Volume 1 covers the North Auckland Line and its branches, which is everything past Newmarket in Auckland. This means basically all the railways in Northland. Volume 2 is the North Island Main Trunk,…

  • North Island Main Trunk [5]: Johnsonville-Tawa 5 / Methven Branch / Otago Central Railway

    So another set of proofs for the Tawa Historical Society below. Meanwhile everything else is sort of progressing. A lot of map drawing time lately has been taken up on researching the Methven Branch. I haven’t actually drawn anything for branch maps yet, and I just discovered I need to redo most of the aerial…

  • North Island Main Trunk [4]: Johnsonville-Tawa 4

    Here is the latest set of proofs for the Tawa Historical Society. I am still in discussion for their exact requirement for their book.

  • MSL Branches [2E]: Methven Branch 5 / Otago Central / Wellington-Tawa

    This is really just a quick catchup as I have been busy with various things and not much actual map work has been done in the last few days. On Friday morning I had a trip into Christchurch Archives to look at Methven Branch stuff. As they are only open half days and have been…