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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 171

Issue Date: October 1985

Volume and Number: 15/3

Pages: 24

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CONTENTS

Editorial - Effects of "User Pays"

Why are railway financed differently from roads

Government's railway policies outlined by Minister

South Island loses anouther Troupe station

NZR and Lyttelton Port offer alternative to slurry pipeline

NEWS -

Coal fired diesels?

Rail customers 'raided' by truckies

New home for Wellington Station statue

Another loco taken for a ride

End of line for old green busses

Green light for 52 new hopper wagons

Funding urban rail benefits ratepayers

Recent Railway tenders

Gisborne floods damage railway

Railway bus taken for joy ride

Southbound Silver Fern collides with tractor

Wellington station booking hall now locked at night

Questions in Parliament -

Fare Increases

Offence Notices

Transport Levy

Gisborne log traffic

Ferry inquiry

Letters -

Branchlines

In the interests of

Hamilton Bridge photo

Maromaku station building

Ferry manning

Book Review -

Steam in the South

Heritage -

Price Loco award to Silver Stream

Mina station building goes to Weka Pass Railway

W&MR displat at Porirua Museum

Second K loco retrieved

Blenheim Riverside Railway formed

Piha tram scheme will not be approved

Private Loco's

Ja 1274 cleaned

Additional photos

Empty Newsprint train at Awakaponga

Eastbound freight at Springfield

Railfreight Trucks

GVR train hauled by Ka 945

Ka 945 being towed 'home'