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Transport Safety Blog NZ: What Happened To Christchurch’s Commuter Trains (Part 1)
On 30 April 1976, the last remaining commuter train service in North Canterbury, the Christchurch to Rangiora workers’ train service, closed down. Since that time there have been no commuter train services operated in the Christchurch area. The commuter trains in Canterbury, which at one point included New Zealand’s first electric train passenger network, were Read…
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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Kiwirail Needs Better Approach To Nuisance Alarm Activations
On Friday 21 July, a car was hit by a Wairarapa Connection commuter train at the Norfolk Road, Waingawa level crossing. This incident appears to be one of a number of problems that have occurred in relation to the railway crossings at Waingawa, a great deal of these problems being due to poor design and Read…
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Changes to converser.nz
A few months ago the whole of converser.nz was migrated to a new hosting platform. Not much has happened since then with converser.nz but that is now changing, as there will be more new posts coming in regularly from here on in, especially in NZ Tekonverse. When the existing blogs were all rolled into converser.nz…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-13A: Formats, Views, Webmaps
So a little bit of detail got left out of the last report, this one is a supplementary. The work that is important at the moment that isn’t tied specifically to the Midland Line is in two areas: So these areas are all important to the ongoing maps project work and it has been determined Read…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-13: Midland Line
Since the field testing on August 5th and the subsequent report on map formats for future testing, no substantial work of any nature has been done on the maps. There has been a small change in the GPS files that are available for download from the Volume 7 page. The full set of GPS locations Read…