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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-13: Midland Line

    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…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Field Testing 2023-08-05: Volumes vs MapBooks

    New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Field Testing 2023-08-05: Volumes vs MapBooks

    UPDATE: It has now been decided for various reasons that MapBooks will stick at diagrams only. Full aerial coverage will continue to be available in the existing Volumes and also an A4-based current aerial format that is produced alongside the MapBook pages that users can print out themselves. Field testing is where the project’s productions Read…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-05: Midland Line

    New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-05: Midland Line

    Mapping work has continued with a few new pieces being worked on, particularly in mapping the MRC Co proposed switchback line over Arthurs Pass. These maps are available now on the Volume 7 page and their content has been worked into an update of the main line maps between Arthurs Pass and Otira. This update Read…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: Midland Railway Switchback Line

    New Zealand Rail Maps: Midland Railway Switchback Line

    When the Midland Railway Company undertook to build the Midland Line between Springfield and Brunner, they had to come up with a way of getting across the Main Divide between Canterbury and Westland; the Southern Alps (Kaa Tiritiri O Te Moana) formed a formidable natural barrier between the two provinces. There was found to be Read…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Volumes: Volume 7 (Midland Line / West Coast)

    NZRM Volume 7 covers all railways on the West Coast of the South Island and the Midland Line between the West Coast and Canterbury. There is approximately 500 km of mainline trackage within this volume. As at July 2023 only a part of Volume 7 has been fully mapped and this article will be updated Read…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-07-25: Midland Line

    New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-07-25: Midland Line

    The maps have now been produced all the way to Otira. A few issues have been found along the way, these will be fixed with an updated edition by the end of this year, which will include the rest of the main line all the way to Greymouth, and hopefully the Midland Line branches as Read…

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