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New Zealand Rail Maps: Green Party Rejects Christchurch Commuter Trains For Light Rail
The Greens have released their public transport policy for the 2026 election, Connecting Aotearoa. There are numerous components in the policy, but notably for Christchurch, it rejects the party’s previous policy of supporting commuter trains, in favour of light rail. This essentially represents the triumph of local Green Party activists’ views over common sense in…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: Extra Bridges In The Taieri Gorge’s Railway: Bridge 9A, 9A (2nd), 15A, 21A and Unconfirmed
This post is about the details known of extra bridges that were built or unconfirmed of being built at various times in the Taieri Gorge section of the Otago Central Branch Railway of NZR times, now today Dunedin Railway Station’s Taieri Gorge Railway. First up we have is the two Bridges 9A near Hindon. First…
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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…
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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…
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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…