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  • New Zealand Rail Maps: State Highway 6 Road Widening at Granity Narrows [1]

    New Zealand Rail Maps: State Highway 6 Road Widening at Granity Narrows [1]

    Granity Narrows is a section of State Highway 6 between Gowanbridge and Owen River. Gowanbridge is the last completed station on the Nelson Section at 67 miles from the origin, Nelson. When the cessation of work was called in January 1931, formation work was being completed up to about 68 1/4 miles along an embankment…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: Regular and in-depth blog posts are resuming

    As you could see from the blog I haven’t actually posted anything all this year. Instead I experimented with making regular posts on the project’s Facebook page but I will be blogging again now and the blog will have more detailed posts on it rather than summaries as there is plenty of interesting stuff happening…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Update 2026-09-16

    Well people, massive apologies for the lack of posts on this blog all this year. Although the blog hasn’t been updated all this time, the project has had plenty of updates which have been ongoing throughout the year. The main thing that has been happening in September is changes to NZ Rail Maps websites. The…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Update 2025-12-06

    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…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Update 2025-07-04

    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…

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