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Well people, as you can see, there hasn’t been an update on the Project in some months. This is due to several planned major events in the Project coordinator’s personal life over the past few months, one of which is still to happen in January. There has actually been a considerable amount of work happening…

The major work in the maps project this month has been with Volume 8 which covers the Nelson Section including the proposed extension to Murchison which was terminated in 1930 incomplete. This would have taken the length of the line to 84 miles / 135 km instead of the 103 km that was formally operated…

This month the main area of work in the maps has been parts of Volume 6, specifically Upper Hutt to Featherston, and latterly Volume 9, which is being completely reorganised, along with the replacement mosaic projects for the Methven and Springburn Branches; the original mosaics project was last heard of in 2022 and seems to…

Webmaps have been captured for this month and are currently being uploaded to the web server. The web page has had a minor redesign and this update and the map tiles will be released tomorrow (1 May). At present the web maps only capture updates for Volumes 1 to 6 (North Island). The Project expects…

Since the last update post, the main work carried out has been in the webmaps site. The site has been built and tested several times and some issues addressed. The site content is currently being reviewed ahead of an expected release next week. It has been found practical to include in this update all revised…