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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 40

Issue Date: November 1974

Volume and Number: 4/4

Pages: 24

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CONTENTS

Editorial: A note about Rails Magazine

ARTICLE: Running the "Three Hundreds" - Life as an NZ engineman 1927 - 1952

New Zealand News:

* Tourist pass sale show big increase
* Hoardings attacked
* MoW To build Poro-o-tarau tunnel
* New Shelters for Dunedin
* Another 1145 new wagons
* Complaint about Pillage article upheld
* New Zealand Rail features in Mexican magazine
* International Transport conference for Sydney
* Railways selling Df engine parts, only one remaining in service

ARTICLE: Signalling History

Letters:

* re Timaru Derailment
* More Dx locos
* Old Bogie in photo background
* New Caledonian Railway

Questions in Parliament:

* Transporting fruit and vegatables
* Clearance of containers
* Railway Pillaging

Recent Closures:

* Spye closed to all traffic 11/08/1974
* Ranganui closed to all traffic 15/09/1974
* Otumoetai Station closed to all traffic 15/09/1974
* Ida valley closed to all traffic 15*09/1974

ARTICLE: Railways and Radio

ARTICLE: Melbourne's Rail Museum

Luxury on 3ft 6in gauge in South Africa

NZR Locomotive series: Class Ed Electric Locomotive

ARTICLE: Steam Express - The Parnell Bank