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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-07-21: Midland Line
After another slow week a lot of work has nevertheless been done to get the mosaics of Springfield finished and imported into the GIS. This has now been completed and adjustments are being made as needed to the maps to address any changes needed. Using the 1976 aerial images (official New Zealand Railways survey of Read…
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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Wairarapa Level Crossing Upgrades Information Received
TSBNZ has received a release of information from Kiwirail in respect of Level Crossing Safety Impact Assessment (LCSIA) documents for part of the area impacted by the current Wairarapa Line level crossing upgrades programme. At the present time the information released to date covers only Carterton District and Masterton District. South Wairarapa District relevant information Read…
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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Gisborne Line Saga Dates Back 40 Years
The debate over the viability and future of the Gisborne Line is not new and dates back 40 years. Having that knowledge will aid considerably in understanding the relevance and context of ongoing discussion over the railway between Napier and Gisborne. The Napier Gisborne Line (part of the Palmerston North Gisborne Line) opened in 1942. Read…
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Christian Converser: Christian Converser Is Migrating!
Dear Readers Very soon this blog is moving to a new hosting platform. There will be some disruption when this takes place. It is unclear if email subscribers to the blog will have their subscriptions migrated as well, or whether they will have to sign up again. RSS subscribers should be unaffected. However, if you…
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Welcome to the new home of converser.nz
Welcome to the new site of converser.nz. The existing, separate blogs are all being merged into this blog which will be separated into different categories for each of the different interests. They will all share the same theme and colour scheme etc. However, Christian Converser, Transport Safety Blog New Zealand and New Zealand Rail Maps…
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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Level Crossing Safety Analysis: Judds Road Crossing, Masterton
Due to the Wairarapa Level Crossing Upgrade Programme being conducted by Kiwirail, some level crossings in the Wairarapa District must be closed. One of those proposed for closure is at Judds Road in Masterton. There are two key safety issues to be addressed at Judds Road Level Crossing and others like it. Using the above Read…
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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Level Crossing Upgrade Programme For Wairarapa Line
Kiwirail and Waka Kotahi are working on a programme of level crossing upgrades in the Wairarapa at the present time. At the time of writing this post some difficulty was experienced in determining actually which Government policy announcement covers the level crossing upgrade programme but it appears to date from the announcement of the Wellington Read…
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Transport Safety Blog NZ: Significant Level Crossing Safety Risks At Waingawa Logging Hub / Waingawa Industrial Park
Waingawa is a station at 85 km on the Wairarapa Line, 9 km north of Carterton and within Carterton District. The site was formerly known for the Waingawa Freezing Works, which had its own industrial sidings. There was a platform and station building for passenger use. It is likely that this would have included some Read…
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REVIEW: Ryobi OB18150 150VA 240V One+ Power Inverter
One of the useful developments in battery operated power tool systems of recent years is that manufacturers have woken up to the merits of having a universal battery system that powers a large range of different tools, ranging from power tools for the workshop to garden tools and even some general domestic devices for home…
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Setting up a second swap partition for Linux [2]
In the first post of this series several years ago, I wrote on how to add a second swap partition to increase the size of the swap space, by adding a second swap entry to the fstab file. This is very much the simplest way of increasing the swap space by using multiple disks, if…
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