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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 172

Issue Date: November 1985

Volume and Number: 15/4

Pages: 24

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CONTENTS

Editorial - Mostly good news

Why construction should start immediately on Taupo Line

NZ Railways beating it's tight clearance problems

Questions in Parliament

Overhead wire danger

Relicensing of transport

Gas by rail

Workshops rationalisation

Apprenticeships

Workshops staff total

High technology for East Town

Railway Gallery - Te Hana, Ohura or where?

NZR moves towards two-person crewing

NEWS -

First electric locomotive takes shape

Re-vamped parcels service

Government pays for apprentices

Hillside wins ambulance event

Minister supports urban rail, service

Christmas train sevices

"doorrail" extended

Traction shop takes shape

Ski excursions

Load security code tested

Stations closed

Security study undertaken

Melling threatened

Urban transoprt is local issue

Recent railway tenders

Social Service" lines upgraded

Rewanui Branch ends its day

Steel Rail standard

Fatality at Linden

NAL derailment

Commuters surveyed

EMU vandalism

Heritage -

Glenbrook's 9th season

Pukemiro's 20th birthday

Dsa 280 for MOTAT

NIMT Centennial Steam Special on TV

Railway themes on Stamp covers

Tramway extension at Wellington museum?

Private Loco's

Ja 1274 cleaned

Additional photos

Westbound Coal train

Johnsonville centennial

NAL excursion crossing Otamatea River

"Stone train" approaching Seacliff

Okahukura double deck bridge

Cook Strait Ships laid up

NIMT realignment near Mangapehi