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New Zealand. Public Works Department :[North Island main trunk railway. Turangarere sec...
Date: 1889
By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works
Reference: MapColl-832.41gme/[1889]/Acc.36714-5
Description: Two sheets of the map of the central route railway, North Island main trunk railway, Turangarere section, each covering up to one mile distance along the Hautapu River. Milage is running from Turangarere towards Taihape. Both sheets show tracks, sheet 2 shows Roapoama's house opposite 70 chains and the track from Moawhango and Marton, while sheet 3 shows a U-turn bend in the track and good sites for platelayer's cottages. The lower diagram in each map is a cross section of the same distance, measuring heights, formation levels, distances and gradients. Maps signed by R W Holmes, 26/11/[18]89. 'Copy of PWD 16466'. Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 46 x 61.4 cm. Provenance: Donated by the Ministry of Works, January 1975.
New Zealand. Public Works Department :Wellington & Foxton Ry. [copy of ms map]. Paikaka...
Date: 18 July 1881
By: Coom, John, 1844-1921; New Zealand. Public Works Department; New Zealand. Ministry of Works
Reference: MapColl-832.4gme/1881/Acc.37108-37112
Description: One photocopy of the map cover and four photocopies of P.W.D. survey plan 8555 comprising Sheets 1, 4, 7, 8. Sheets 2, 3, 5 and 6 were not copied. Sheet 1 is of the proposed route of the railway line from the 20 mile mark at Paekakariki to the 21 mile mark. Sheet 4 is from the 23 to 24 mile mark. Sheet 7 is from the 26 mile mark, near Paraparaumu, to the 27 mile mark. Sheet 8 is from the 27 to 28 mile mark. The starting point of this mileage is the Wellington Main Station. Includes references to telegraph lines and the site of the Paekakariki Station, watercourses - dry in summer and the relief of each area. The location of Lynch's is marked. A cross sectional plan of the same area is included with references to level crossings, watercourses, box drain and pipe sizes, streamlet pipes and streams to be diverted. Other Titles - Wellington and Foxton railway; Paekakariki - Horowhenua trial line Quantity: 4 map(s) on four sheets. Physical Description: Photocopies, scale [1:2 376], sheets 46 x 61.3 cm. Provenance: Handwritten note states: Donated by Ministry of Works, Jan. 1975.