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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 35

Issue Date: June 1974

Volume and Number: 3/11

Pages: 24

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Progress Made

ARTICLE: Steam returns to Paekakariki

ARTICLE: East Coast Notebook

ARTICLE: memories of wartime railroading in the North Africa Desert

ARTICLE: South Africa's giant condensing locomotives

ARTICLE: Capetown - Oudtshoorn by Beyer Garratt

ARTICLE: British Empire Medal for former Railway man

PROFILE: Gordon Troup, Railway Enthusiast Extraordinary

Questions in Parliament

* New rail passenger services
* Non use of Car Deck on Arahanga
* North Canterbury rail passenger services
* Frankton and Invercargill railway stations
* New Plymouth  - taumaranui railcar service
* Wairarapa Railcar Servise
* Non-use of Arahanga car deck
* Shipping Corporation takeover of Rail ferries

Photo - NZR Locomotive Series - Class De Diesel Electric Locomotive

Photo - RM 8 departing Rangiora

ARTICLE: Steam Express - Battling the western Rimutaka grades