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Full Name: New Zealand Railfan

Issue Number: 25

Issue Date: December 2000

Volume and Number: 7/1

Pages: 72

Page Range: 1-72

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Looking Over The Fence

Letters

• Contemplating the Year 2020
• The Royal Crest
• EB 26
• Hitch hiking in Hawkes Bay
• AB 745 and Friends
• Open Platform Carriages

Book reviews

• Semaphore to CTC
• Featherston's Fell Locomotive Museum
• How North British Built the NZR's J Class Locomotives
• 2001 Calendars

Video Reviews

• New Zealand Rali Scene Vol 24

Obituary: Stuart John McDougall 1951 - 2000

Mystery Photo Response (Sept 2000)

Rail News

• Tranz Rail Locomotive News
• Tranz Rail Resructuring
• A Steaming Good Labour Weekend
• Shuttle Train Services Start

Preservation Progress

• The Rail Heritage Trust Wagon Lease Programme
• {{Fielding and District Steam Rail Society]]
• Glenbrook Vintage Railway
• Eastern Locomotive Group
• K 88 Trust Board
• Pleasant Point Railway
• Waimea Plains Railway Trust Board

Photo Stop: the Blue Streak Railcars - A Touch of Class

ARTICLE: The Kingston Railway Festival

ARTICLE: The Dargaville Line Resurrection

ARTICLE: Beyond Schooldays Down Rotten Row

ARTICLE: Reminicences Of The NZR - A Personal Recollection (continued)

Vignettes:

• The Last Blue Streak
• DSC propelled by manpower
• Whangamomona
• A 601 Loco 50th anniversay of purchase of W&MR
• Mystery Photo
• Track Gang at Omimi
• Track Gang in Dunedin Yard

Guest Commentary: When the Conventional Fails, Try the un-conventional; Napier - Gisborne Railway. by Barry O'Donnell