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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 38

Issue Date: September 1974

Volume and Number: 4/2

Pages: 24

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Terminal Problems

ARTICLE: New Shunting tractors being built at Hillside

ARTICLE: Death of A Station

ARTICLE: The Railway to Nowhere - New Caledonia's only public railway

ARTICLE: Pleasant Point Railway and Historical Society

New Zealand News:

* Ashburton Underground?
* Beneficiaries get cheap rail travel
* Computerised Wagon Control area extended
* NZR to hold 20% of Chep Pallets
* NZR gets grant toward purchase of 25 new Suburban busses
* More wagons and containers coming
* Ja 1274 Progress
* Greater transport cooperation wanted
* First batch of insulated containersw arrive
* Rail Preservation conference held in Wellington
* Route mileage open for traffic

Tenders:

* New Goods Shed at Hawera
* Removal of Stockyards at Fordell

ARTICLE: Assesment of Rail's performance over the last 12 months

Heritage Photo: Ab 778 being coaled at Kingston Dec 1971

Questions in Parliament:

* Railway Rollingstock Orders  1958 - 1974
* Supply of wagons to Bulk Consolidators
* Purchase of Rolling stock
* New type railcars
* utilisation of Heavy road vehicles
* Wilbur Smith Transportation Study
* Staff numbers at Levin
* Aratika demarcation dispute

Modellers Photo: Unusual signal on Ahuriri Branch

Book Review:

* The Tank Engines

ARTICLE: Steam Express