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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 42

Issue Date: January 1975

Volume and Number: 4/6

Pages: 24

Page Range:

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: A New direction for the NZR?

ARTICLE: Double deck car wagons are a break through

ARTICLE: Government Green Paper Suggests NZ Rail Corporation

ARTICLE: photos from the W W Stewart Collection - New Zealand's Electrified Lines

New Zealand News:

* Efforts praised after major derailment in North Canterbury
* 21 Derailments between Christchurch and Picton in 1974
* Rail Ferry Berth foe Lyttelton?
* NZR's Bush Tramway closes down
* Bus strike wins over commuters for rail
* Christchurch goods delays explained
* Flying Scotsman's former owner in New Zealand
* Taranaki railcar timetable changed
* Locomotive C 847 planning to be moved to Silverstream
* Tenders called for the removal of the Stockyards at Porewa
* Pleasant Point railway and Historical Society
* Steam Incorporated holds successful open day

ARTICLE: Running the 'Three Hundreds' part 3

Letters:

* Rail heritage items
* Ashburton Railway and Preservation Society
* Tank engines

Questions in Parliament:

* Profitability of the Coastal Trader
* Transport congestion
* Furniture carried by rail
* Auckland's suggested under-harbour rail link

ARTICLE: Steam Express

Modellers Photo: Class Vb insulated bogie wagon