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Blog changes coming
Within the next few months this blog will be changing: This blog, instead of being left in maintenance mode like it has been for the past few months, will stay up but receive no new posts, once the migration has been finalised. It would stay in place until the hosting plan is due for renewal,…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2024-11-15: Volume 10, Volume 12, Webmaps
Apologies for the long delay since the last update. October was not an auspicious month for map work for numerous reasons, and work had to be paused for practically the whole month whilst a number of issues were worked through. These have now been overcome, and production has resumed. For the rest of 2024 there…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: Mina Station, Main North Line
Mina is a small rural locality on the Main North Line at 119.4 km. It was formerly the railway station for the Cheviot township. The section of railway it is located from was formerly known as the Cheviot Branch because at that time, the main line was the route via the Weka Pass to Waiau.…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: Rimutaka Deviation and Maymorn Station
The Rimutaka Deviation is a deviation of the Wairarapa Line that was built between 1948 and 1955 between Upper Hutt and Featherston. It replaced the section of track that contained the Rimutaka Incline. This section was opened in 1878 and closed in 1955. The maps below show the route in a simple route map form…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Volumes: Volume 10 (North Otago)
NZRM Volume 10 covers all railways in North Otago and part of South Canterbury on the East Coast of the South Island. There is approximately 500 km of mainline trackage within this volume. As at September 2024 only a part of Volume 10 has been fully mapped and this article will be updated as further…