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Full Name: Rails60

Issue Number: 60

Issue Date: July 1976

Volume and Number: 5/12

Pages: 24

Page Range:

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: That Annual Deficit

ARTICLE: Enclosed Coal-carrying Containers Developed for Dairy Company

International News

* New Sleeper Machine
* Canada Develops New High-speed Train
* 2ft gauge Concrete sleepers

New Zealand News:

* Kingston Flyer Boosts Goods Traffic too
* More Rail Passenger Services Cuts
* 25 Percent Freight Revenue Increase Sought
* New Bus Services Introduced
* UK Wagons
* Crossing Onus on Motorist
* Details of Branch Line Closures
* Opunake Protest
* What Labour Had Planned
* Heavy Train tests Coupler Transition Head
* Za Wagons
* Derailment in Kaimai Tunnel
* Tax-free Fares?
* No Support for ART
* Passenger Trains' Future
* Rangatira Extension
* Wairarapa Line Service Changes
* Johnsonville Branch Changes
* Aratika Departs
* Porootarau Station Closed except for Tunnel construction traffic
* + Bulk Plaster Wagons - Ukp
* Tenders

  * Removal of a portion of the Railway Stockyards at Carterton
  * Construction of concrete block Station shelter at Takapu Road

ARTICLE: Why the Railcars Had to Go

Traffic Report - Passenger Statistics April - December 1975

Article: Was this the First Rail Picnic

Letters to the Editor

* Road/Rail Competition
* K88 Restoration
* Passenger Services

Book Reviews:

* The Guinness Book of Rail Facts and Feats