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|MAGAZINE=Rails
|Issue_Number=172
|Issue Date=November 1985
|Volume_Number=15/4
|Page_Count=24
|Cover_Image=Rails172.png
}}



















'''CONTENTS'''

Editorial - Mostly good news

Why construction should start immediately on Taupo Line

NZ Railways beating it's tight clearance problems

Questions in Parliament
::Overhead wire danger
::Relicensing of transport
::Gas by rail
::Workshops rationalisation
::Apprenticeships
::Workshops staff total
::High technology for East Town

Railway Gallery - Te Hana, Ohura or where?

NZR moves towards two-person crewing

NEWS - 
::First electric locomotive takes shape
::Re-vamped parcels service
::Government pays for apprentices
::Hillside wins ambulance event
::Minister supports urban rail, service
::Christmas train sevices
::"doorrail" extended
::Traction shop takes shape
::Ski excursions
::Load security code tested
::Stations closed
::Security study undertaken
::Melling threatened
::Urban transoprt is local issue
Recent railway tenders
::Social Service" lines upgraded
::Rewanui Branch ends its day
::Steel Rail standard
::Fatality at Linden 
::NAL derailment
::Commuters surveyed
::EMU vandalism

Heritage - 
::Glenbrook's 9th season
::Pukemiro's 20th birthday
::Dsa 280 for MOTAT
::NIMT Centennial Steam Special on TV
::Railway themes on Stamp covers
::Tramway extension at Wellington museum?
::Private Loco's
::Ja 1274 cleaned

Additional photos
::Westbound Coal train 
::Johnsonville centennial
::NAL excursion crossing Otamatea River
::"Stone train" approaching Seacliff
::Okahukura double deck bridge
::Cook Strait Ships laid up
::NIMT realignment near Mangapehi