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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 58

Issue Date: May 1976

Volume and Number: 5/10

Pages: 24

Page Range:

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Passenger Service Cuts

ARTICLE: End of the Line for Passenger Trains?

Railway Commentary - Carrier's View of 40 mile limit

New Zealand News:

* Railcar Services Doomed
* Railcars are Hostellers Lifeline
* The Oppositions View of Rail Cuts
* Rail Save Road Wear
* Assistant GM retires
* Edible Liquids by rail
* Auckland Offered Rail Loans
* Unique Maori Language Sign Preserved
* Busses are More Efficient
* Hamilton Development License Granted
* NZ Firm Exporting Signal Gear to Australia
* Palmerston no longer a Southerner stop
* New Press Officer position for rail in Auckland
* Aramoana ferry develops bearing problems
* Shunt loco damaged in Wellington accident
* Otira Water upply system renewed]]
* Christchurch Transport Committee Formed
* New Public Transport Pressure Group Formed
* Wellington Mayor commits to keeping Cable cars forever
* -Featherston's Fell Loco threatened
* Tenders

  * Earthmoving equipment hire rates - Christchurch office
  * Construction of Freight yard in Dunedin
  * Post-tensioning of bridge beams at Bridge 9 MNPL
  * Removal of Fairlie Station building

Traffic Report - Freight Statistics November - December 1975

Book Reviews:

* New Zealand Steam Spectacular
* Kauri Timber Dams
* Transport in New Zealand
* The Royal Trains   (British)
* the Springburn Story   (Scotland)
* Mainly Scottish Steam   (Scotland)

ARTICLE: Rails Format goes Metric

International News

* New Method of Preventing Wheel-slip
* Locontrol Described 
* Japanese Steam traction comes to an end

ARTICLE: Railways and Metrication

ARTICLE: Westland's Coal Carrying

Book Reviews:

* The Railroad Car Builders Pictorial Dictionary  (Reprint 1974  American)
* 1976 RES Caledar
* Steam Locomotive Prints
* Locomotion  (British)
* Steam Locomotives of the East African railways
* Horse-drawn Days
* The Old NZR C Class Tank Locomotives  (Reprint)
* The Development of Railway Signalling in New Zealand  (reprint)
* Crime on the Lines   (British fiction()

ARTICLE: Weatherproofing the Main Trunk

Letters:

* Lpx wagons seen and log transfers at Waipahi
* Train radios
* Garratt Tank use
* Steam on the main line

ARTICLE:Steam Express - the G Class loco

Modellers Photos:

* Class Uc Bogie Petroleum Tank wagon

Photo: Northbound goods train near Piriaka