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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 19

Issue Date: February 1973

Volume and Number: 2/7

Pages: 24

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Naming Trains

ARTICLE: The 1950 report on Electric Traction now revealed

ARTICLE: Silver Fern Track Report

ARTICLE: Steam Express pt 9

New Zealand News:

  • Josephine
  • New Road Serrvices long distance coach
  • New Dunedin Locomotive Depot
  • Wairarapa Line subsidised
  • CME appointment
  • Frankton Station site
  • RM 30 to be Preserved
  • Trains collide at Balclutha

Book Reviews:

  • Engine 6000 - The Saga of the King George V (British)

ARTICLE: The Day when steam came to aid the fire fighters

New Zealand News:

  • Railways new container crane at Wellington Port
  • New Signals Deopt for Kaiwharawhara
  • Endeavour proves popular
  • Freight merger
  • Rapid rail discussions

International news