Category: Project Development

  • Marton New Plymouth Line [0B]: Progress Report

    The last few days working on the MNPL pushing things along towards New Plymouth have been a pretty hard slog, which is reflective of the nature of all the NZ Rail Maps project if I am going to produce full volumes that use current aerial photography as a background. When I first started doing maps…

  • Marton New Plymouth Line [2A]: Westmere-Waitotara 1

    I have now finished mapping most of the Whanganui area except for East Town and have decided to do a full Volume 4 with aerial photography for the entire route to New Plymouth, branches and the SOL. There will not be any more Retrolens historical stuff done for MNPL as there are no images available…

  • Historic Map Mileages

    One of the features of NZ Rail Maps is the decision to only use Working Timetable mileages or kilometrages instead of other sources that may not be accurate. The Quail Atlas is the obvious source of distances that have been shown to be inaccurate. It would seem this is because, instead of digging up the…

  • Project Updates 1/1/2019

    Welcome to the new year. Since the last time I have been busy working on a few sidelines. Maps have been produced in two other areas in particular: a map of the closed Turakina-Okoia route of the MNPL, which was bypassed with a deviation in 1947, and starting to have a look at updates to…

  • Project development: Work programme for 2019

    In my last few posts I have talked about the PNGL mapping I am working on. I have just about completed downloading the base aerial photography, and are working on mosaics for almost every station on the line. This is Volume 5 of the 12 volume map series and the PNGL and its branches is…

  • Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0A]: PNGL maps revision project commencement

    It’s been four years since I published the maps for this section (Volume 8 in the old volume numbering scheme) and having road tripped the entire length of the route in June this year it’s time for both updates to the core maps and a more user friendly format for use in the field, especially…

  • Kingston Branch [2F]: Makarewa-Lumsden, Mararoa-Kingston. Mossburn, Hedgehope, Tuatapere, Wairio

    So now that I have mapped Invercargill-Makarewa and Lumsden-Mararoa on the Kingston Branch, work will be continuing to map, firstly, the rest of the Kingston Branch, followed by the Mossburn Branch, Hedgehope Branch, Tuatapere Branch, Orawia Branch, Wairio Branch and Ohai Railway Board section. This will proceed at a slower pace than previously on the…

  • Website change

    Later this evening the website will be altered. www.nzrailmaps.nz will continue to point to a Trainweb site, which will have a single page on it. This page will in its turn link to a new site hosted on WordPress, the address of which is http://nzrailmaps.wordpress.com/ So Trainweb will continue to act as the landing page…

  • Web site update

    As previously described, due to the closedown of Google Plus, content I currently collate there will be relocated. I am currently looking into a free wordpress.com site to replace both the existing website (trainweb) and the Google Plus collations into one site. Trainweb has been very good and I will continue to use it in…

  • Website: Major change to Google Plus

    Google announced three weeks ago they would be closing Google Plus down. The NZ Rail Maps project does use Google Plus to collate links to some of our content. We don’t actually host content on Google Plus itself but we do use other Google services and these aren’t affected. Because of this change in Google…