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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 56

Issue Date: March 1976

Volume and Number: 5/8

Pages: 24

Page Range:

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Road v Rail

ARTICLE: Keeping the trains rolling on the Napier Gisborne Line

ARTICLE: More New Wagon Types

ARTICLE: New Minister of railways Interviewed

New Zealand News:

* -Four locos regularly used on one train
* Railway Charges increased
* New rates for Rail-Air
* End of 40 mile Limit?
* Guard's Van contract to Japan
* MSL CTC extended to Temuka
* Rangatira Rates increase
* Last Dx Shipment due soon
* Tenders called for modifying Aratika ferry
* An additional suburban service from Paraparaumu
* Courtesy Award to Guard's Assistant
* Another railcar catches fire
* 15 year old causes derailment
* Package houses railed to Cromwell
* Wellington cable car overhauled
* Senior appointments announced
* Silver Fern damaged in level crossing accident
* Redundant meat wagons scrapped
* L Class Loco restored at Tauranga
* Tenders

  * Renewal of Bridge 171 PNGL
  * Removal of Stockyards at Mangatainoka
  * Underpinning of 4 piers on Clarence Bridge

NZR Freight Traffic Report - September - November 1975

International News

* Locontrol in use on Mt Newman Mining railway
* Expensive meals on British trains
* -First Australian built diesel still running well
* - Sydney introduces carpet in its double-deckers
* - NSW adopts Grain containers
* - New miniature steam railway at Blenheim Palace

ARTICLE: Railways and Metrication

ARTICLE: Auckland's modern Southdown Terminal

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