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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 44

Issue Date: March 1975

Volume and Number: 4/8

Pages: 24

Page Range:

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

ARTICLE: Tripple Headers and Radio-telephones help speed up Main Trunk freight trains

Poem: The Nelson railway

New Zealand News:

* Station Closures
  * Medbury closed to all traffic - 24/11/1974
  * McNab closed to all traffic except wagon lots - 1/12/1974

* Feasibility study on Wellington - Lyttelton rail Ferry
* dd Wagon utilisation
* Lb wagon contract let
* MOTAT donated a loco and tractor by NZR
* Shelter for Flyer Locos
* Australian firm wins contract for tank wagons
* Busses using Wellington rail terminal
* Mana Station to get facelift
* Silver Fern Liquor service changes
* Pleasant Point railway and Historical Society
* Wellington Tramway Museum to get new barn
* Interisland trucking

ARTICLE: Steam at Frankton

Railway Commentary

* Where are those new railcars?
* When is a tram not a tram

Photo study: Rimutaka Incline

International news:

* British Express train
* Portugals narrow gauge
* Australia's famous 'Tea and Sugar' Train

ARTICLE: Steam Loco on loan to Freezing works

Book Review:

* The Piha Tramway

Report: British Empire Medal For Kingston Flyer's Driver

Modellers Photos:

* Remuera Station and Signal Box
* Class H cattle wagon

ARTICLE: Steam Express