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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 48

Issue Date: July 1975

Volume and Number: 4/12

Pages: 24

Page Range:

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: After the Freezr

ARTICLE: Budget shows Railway Deficit soaring but so is Capital Expenditure

ARTICLE: Rails East of Frankton

New Zealand News:

* Tenders called for new vans
* Wairarapa Railcar popular
* Wellington Yard rebuild likely
* New Mangaweka Span collapses
* Costly Vandelism
* Ministers views on Steam trips
* MNL upgrade need highlighted
* Auckland's rapid transit fate in Auckland's hands
* Freight Forwarders worry Harbour Board
* Kaimai Troubles
* W&MR Last spike site Marked
* Second Loco for Pleasant Point
* New Clay traffic from Wesport
* Wellington Cable car progress
* Livestock cartage steadily declining
* Masterton Derailment
* Gisborne becomes wheat import point for lower north Island
* Crew abandon train due to trackside fires
* Electronic weighbridges at Te Rapa brought into use
* Tenders invited for removal of National Part Goods shed
* Glenavy closed as an officered station
* -Typists also part-time ticket collectors
* -Johnsonville display to promote Toutist Passes

International News

* Sydney's original electric train carriages withdrawn
* railway to Alice Springs started

Letters:

* second loco in Photo of Alliance Meat Workss
* Corrections to Loco numbers

Photo: Beyer Garratt climbing out of Wellington

Railway Commentary: Urgent need for new passenger cars

Film Review: Murder on the Orient Express

ARTICLE: Forty Years on the footplate Pt 3

Photos: Railways of Otago

ARTICLE: Steam Express pt

Modellers Photos:

* Class V Insulated Meat wagon (diagram V-3)

Report: Standard Railcars cut up at Upper Hutt