New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Wairarapa Line

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – December 2021

    In the past month the key focus of the project has switched to updating Volumes 5 and 6 for the Volumes site, which will be revamped and launched under a new format on 1 January 2022. Volume 6 has received the higher priority because of the recent opening of the double track extension in the…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – September 2021

    Good morning and welcome to the project development report for September 2021. In the past month, the main focus has shifted to the North Island Main Trunk volume, Volume 2. When this is completed it is expected to become the first volume that will appear on the NZ Rail Maps Volumes site. The Volumes site…

  • NZRM Update 2021-03-04

    Good afternoon and welcome to this week’s NZ Rail Maps Project update. As it says on the Facebook page this week’s update is a few days later than planned, normally updates come out on Mondays. The reason is that it was decided last week the update milestone would be for completing all trunk corridors in…

  • NZRM Update 2021-02-01

    Welcome to the first update for February. Looking back, the first month of Webmaps has been a busy month with coverage gradually being increased. The webmaps now cover just over 500 km of the national network, and this is being steadily increased alongside other project work as time allows. Today’s update takes the NIMT coverage…

  • Wairarapa Line (Volume 6) Webmaps Preview

    Good afternoon. In our last blog post we proposed that web maps for Volume 6 (Wairarapa Line), based on the previously published static images for Volume 6, would become available this week. We are pleased to announce that a preview for part of Volume 6, from Wellington to Waterloo in the Hutt Valley, is now…

  • North Auckland Line [0Y]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 42, 2020

    Good morning. Last week’s blog referred to samples of Southdown and suggested a method of providing access to specific levels of aerial photography for each station. This week, instead of other map work, time was taken to reflect on further options for displaying aerial photography, and even although another week has gone by with seemingly…

  • NZRM Project Releases New Zealand Rail Maps Volume 6 (Wairarapa Line)

    Good morning. This post is to announce we have released New Zealand Rail Maps Volume 6. Volume 6 is hosted on our new website at the address below. https://www.blog.nzrailwebmaps.nz/Volume-6-Wairarapa-Line Volume 6 consists of 8 map sets, each of which contains diagram and aerial maps, with multiple generations of aerial maps possible. The number of maps…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020G]: New Milestones

    Good evening. Today is a big day in the NZ Rail Maps project. We’re launching our website, we’re publishing Volume 6 of NZ Rail Maps for the Wairarapa Line, and we’re starting to write our blog posts directly on this WordPress site. After looking at some ideas of how we could host a website, we…

  • Wairarapa Line [0NN]: Volume 6 Progress Update 40

    Good morning. As noted in our last update, the bulk of Volume 6 has been completed and is ready to be released. We have to complete four sections only. These are: Hutt Park Railway Gracefield Branch Featherston Camp Siding Greytown Branch These are all relatively short lines and all aerial tiles have been completed already…

  • Wairarapa Line [0MM]: Volume 6 Progress Update 39

    Wairarapa Line [0MM]: Volume 6 Progress Update 39

    Good morning. With a big push throughout yesterday and well into the small hours, we have completed the last 70 km of the Wairarapa Line main line corridor to Woodville at 171 km. This obviously helps us to get a lot closer to finishing this volume. We have still a little work here and there…