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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 57

Issue Date: April 1976

Volume and Number: 5/9

Pages: 24

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Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Urban Transport and Politics

ARTICLE: Annual Urban Transport Feature - Words Again Dominated

ARTICLE: Regional Transport Authorities - The UK Experience

ARTICLE Diesel Age Nostalgia

ARTICLE: The Chartered Institute of Transport

ARTICLE: The Picton Line - Availability track record

New Zealand News:

* Kaimai Hole-through next month?
* Tourist Pass availability extended
* Aratika Conversion to take place in Hong Kong
* New High Capacity Tank Wagons arrive
* partial re-opening of Motuhora Branch being considered
* Free Continental breakfast for Sleeper passengers on Northerner
* NUR view on 40 mile trucking limit
* Poro-o-tarao tunnel work starts
* New Class Nx express 4-wheeler wagon
* Uc wagons now being used for export Turpentine
* Tauranga Council wants all trains painted bright yellow
* Carriage A 463 donated to Ferrymead
* Higher fares unreasonable
* Spate of level crossing deaths around Feilding
* Railcar derailed when it hit a scrub-cutting tractor near Clinton
* Wellington's cable cars going again
* Bobby calves travel better by rail
* Mangaweka bridge has delays
* New Hamilton Station
* Tenders

  * Removal of Stockyards at Featherston
  * Removal of station building at Kohuratahi
  * Removal of station building at Mangawhero

International News

* -British Rail fares increase
* Queensland rail hauls more freight
* Swedes help Amtrack
* - US adopts Tourist Pass Pinciple

ARTICLE: Women make best use of Tourist Passes

ARTICLE: Tourist pass sales by Location

Modellers Photos:

* Carterton Yard
* Class Un Bogie flat-top wagon