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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 173

Issue Date: December 1985

Volume and Number: 15/5

Pages: 28

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CONTENTS

Editorial - Death on the roads

railways achieve operating profit

Railways reorganisation the biggest ever

NEWS -

Difficult year says Minister

Rail managers and unions plan future

Deregulation benefits claimed

Feeder busses proposed

Tauranga wins share of steel

Ferry food mostly fine

fares rise

Truck weights increased

Road costs up

Ferry terminus on schedule

Film highlights electrification risks

Wagon sags

Safe Air stops car transport

Melling branch extension mooted

Load of army munitions accidentally on ferry

Car fuel cheaper than bus fare

Appeal Board appointment

$21M Tauranga harbour bridge

Ferry assists in rescue

Recent railway tenders

Call for urban transport funding review

Railway bus take for joy ride

Silver Fern Replaced Northerner

Pukerua Bay Station to be demolished

Railway bus accident near Taumaranui

NIMT realignment expected due to mining at Huntly

Fatal crossing accident at Eltham

Unclaimed property auction at Wellington

Child survives being run over by train

Matiere Station closed, crossing loop retained

Book Reviews -

The G'day Country

Getting around the South Island

George Troupe, Architect and Engineer

NZR Working Timetable 1947 facsimile

Letters -

Photo of Express at Temuka

Another colour scheme to be introduced?

Wellington tramway extension

Maromaku Station

Heritage -

'Aotea' railcar returns to Silver Stream

Rails photo competition

Auckland Zoo train plans stall

Additional photos

Dx 5235 hauling train through Te Kuiti

Tallow wagons cart loco oil

DC's haul empty train through Matahina loop

GVR train hauled by Ka 945

Ka 945 being towed 'home'