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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 49

Issue Date: August 1975

Volume and Number: 5/1

Pages: 24

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Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: The Railway and Environmental Impact

ARTICLE: New Plymouth Freight Terminal Environmental Impact Report

ARTICLE: Railway Minister interviewed

International News:

* Australia's Mount Newman Mine Expanding
* ARTICLE: Australian Government preserves last working Garratt locomotive
* Steam excursions raise money for Darwin
* Vandals cause concern for British Rail
* New uses for old stations
* Rail transport saves fuel
* -New Syrian Railway
* -Metrication in the USA

New Zealand News:

* Freight Forwarders worry Harbour Board
* Kaimai Troubles
* W&MR Last spike site Marked
* Another Dunedin Tram Saved
* Station Closures
  * Maharahara (Matahiwi) - 30/03/1975
  * Papatawa - 1/07/1967 
  * Tahoraiti - 1/02/1971 
  * Conical Hill - 2/03/1975
  * Fernside - 30/03/1975 

* Carriages Donated
* Steam Locos still in service
* -District Engineer Christchurch Dies
* -Tenders called for the removal of Station and Stockyards at Ida Valley

Questions in Parliament

* Road Transport Licences
* Rail freight costs for Watties
* Improved railway services
* Twin-set railcars

ARTICLE: New Dunedin Locomotive Depot is both Attractive and Functional

Book Review:

* [[Coal Fields Enterprise]
* Locomotive Selections From the New Zealand railway Observer
* South American Steam
* Fourty Years of caledonian Locomotives  (British)
* Steam in the West  (British)

Report: Canterbury Steam Museum progress

Report: Progress at Glenbrook

ARTICLE: NZR hold Memento of the Gresley Pacifics

ARTICLE: $0 years on the Footplate Pt 2

Report: NZR GM attends railway Conference

Modellers Photos:

* Class E (non-revenue) crane wagon