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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 49

Issue Date: August 1975

Volume and Number: 5/1

Pages: 24

Page Range:

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: The Railway and Environmental Impact

ARTICLE: New Plymouth Freight Terminal Environmental Impact Report

Railway Commentary: Mt Davey Coal and the NZR

International News:

* Australian Urban Train
* Australian Changes
* The Indian Pacific train (Sydney - Perth) now running four times per week
* NSW introduces Cheap Day Rover tickets
* -Tasmanian Rail takeover

Book Review:

* Diesel Hydraulics of teh Western Region  (British)

New Zealand News:

* November 3 is Northerner Day
* Details of New Vans
* Wellington Suburban Train reshuffle
* New Engines for Dsc Shunters
* Main South Line CTC extended
* Radios now in use on the Gisborne Line
* Timaru Council calls tenders for footbridge over railway
* Tenders called for the removal of Stockyards at Waverley Racecourse

ARTICLE: The End of the Line for Old Invercargill Station

Questions in Parliament

* Auckland - Gisborne tug and barge service
* Rail ferry Sterwad duties
* rail travel consession cards for pensioners
* Loss of Till money on the Rail ferries
* State takeover of Freight Forwarding Company
* Passenger and Freight subsidies 
* Meal Service on Ferries
* Greymouth to Ross Branch Line
* Seddonville Branch Line
* Railway losses
* Fuel cost increases
* Passenger Rolling Stock
* Shipping Subsidy
* Bath St, Levin railway crossing
* Freight Forwarding Co Purchase negotiations
* Tuatapere Branch Traffic

ARTICLE: 'Locomotion' replica celebrates 150 years of railways

ARTICLE: NZR hold Memento of the Gresley Pacifics

ARTICLE: Forty years on the Footplate Pt 2

Modellers Photos:

* Feilding Footbridge