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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Taieri Gorge Railway vs Otago Central Rail Trail Saga [1]
This is Part [1] of a planned series of three articles on the current TGR-OCRT saga, whereby the future of the Taieri Gorge Railway is suggested to be as a conversion into an extension of the Otago Central Rail Trail. This is shaping up to be quite a controversy in 2023 and has involved much…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-11-25: Volume 6
Work on maps recently has been focused on Volume 6. In the 1960s the NIMT between Porirua and Plimmerton was doubled, electrified and realigned. Whilst mapping has been done on this section before, it needed to be redone to make it easier to overlap the mosaics produced from Wellington to Porirua which are in a…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-11-06: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 6
Work on maps recently has been undertaken in the area of Taneatua, which is part of Volume 3. Aerials of Taneatua Station obtained some time ago were used to create a comprehensive set of maps from the old Taneatua overbridge as far as the station yard. This also included the Peketahi combined bridge in part,…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-10-17A: Proposed Work Schedule To End of 2024
After consideration the work schedule for the maps project from date to the end of next year is proposed as follows. The plan is to complete up to four volumes which are already well in hand and therefore only need a relatively small amount of work to complete. So all of these are in the…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-10-17: NIMT, ECMT, Midland Line, Project Files
Since the last update more work has been done in Volumes 2 and 4, specifically sections of the North Island Main Trunk which are in both these volumes, and Volume 3, specifically the Taneatua Branch. Work is now returning to Volume 7 to progress the release of the complete Midland Line section with all branches…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-10-17A: Proposed Work Schedule To End of 2024
After consideration the work schedule for the maps project from date to the end of next year is proposed as follows. The plan is to complete up to four volumes which are already well in hand and therefore only need a relatively small amount of work to complete. So all of these are in the…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-10-17: NIMT, ECMT, Midland Line, Project Files
Since the last update more work has been done in Volumes 2 and 4, specifically sections of the North Island Main Trunk which are in both these volumes, and Volume 3, specifically the Taneatua Branch. Work is now returning to Volume 7 to progress the release of the complete Midland Line section with all branches…
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Christian Converser: Political Faultlines Continue To Divide US Churches
Apologies for the slowdown in delivery of posts from this blog in 2022. The authorship has experienced many distractions, much of which have been personal family circumstances. These have been overcome enough by now to resume blogging. A faultline that has emerged this year in the US over evangelical engagement with political culture in the…
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Christian Converser: Political Faultlines Continue To Divide US Churches
Apologies for the slowdown in delivery of posts from this blog in 2022. The authorship has experienced many distractions, much of which have been personal family circumstances. These have been overcome enough by now to resume blogging. A faultline that has emerged this year in the US over evangelical engagement with political culture in the…
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Christian Converser: Is the State clamping down on Christians in NZ?
At the end of June, a well known Christian activist group in New Zealand failed in a legal challenge to the removal of their charitable status (registered with various government agencies). The revocation of this status is said to be due to their involvement in political advocacy, which is generally held to be non-charitable in…