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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 Magazine Format goes Metric

International News

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

ARTICLE: Westland's Coal Carrying Branchlines - Engine Up, Bunker Down

Modellers Photos:

* Woburn Yard