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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 4

Issue Date: November 1971

Volume and Number: 1/4

Pages: 24

Page Range:

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: NZR freight wagon policy

ARTICLE: Tourism can thrive on rail with planning

News:

 * NZR ends steam era
 * Contract for wagons
 * $100 million for Auckland rapid Transit Scheme

ARTICLE: Turbo Trains - How the French can help

ARTICLE: The epic of the Main Trunk

International News

Book Reviews:

* A Desire of Tramcars (Europe)
* Pioneer Electrics

ARTICLE: The Line that Soldiers Built - Rangiriri - Ngaruawahia

NEWS

* Kaimai Tunnel Boring machine Strikes Problems
* Taringamotu Tramway Closes

International News

Letters:

* Driving the Flyer
* Link-up trains
* Ugly Dx's

ARTICLE: Mines Department Loco donated

News

 * Railcar service alterations
 * keeping the Star cleaner
 * Linwood to get Underfloor wheel lathe
 * Brambles opens in NZ
 * New Long distance road coaches
 * More bulk flour wagons
 * Otago Central railcar service
 * Loco derailed
 * JA 1274 saved

Book Review

 * Preserved Steam Locomotives of Europe Vol 2

News:

 * Wellington Station Airspace development can go ahead
 * NZR sells South Westland Goods Service
 * Call for rapid rail
 * Urban Passenger Transport Council set up
 * Ocean Beach Railway ran at a loss