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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 52

Issue Date: November 1975

Volume and Number: 5/4

Pages: 24

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Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Workshops Problems

ARTICLE: New Northerner trains set new standards

New Zealand News:

* The Ukx, another new wagon type
* Big load for rail to Kapuni
* Pedestrian Subway for Upper Hutt
* More delays at Kaimai
* ataroa station closed to all traffic except wagon lots - 8/09/1975
* Ida Valley re-opened to Passengers
* Railcar fears
* Railcars to be retained on Otago Central Branch
* Synthetic ropes trialed
* Crofton Downs Station development approved
* New Plymouth Freight yard environmental plan approved
* New Plant maintenance facility opened at Aramoho
* Carterton Staff win Courtesy Award
* A contract has been let for a new Road Services Depot at Waimate
* Mercer station History
* A E McQueen appionted president of NZ Geographical Society

International News

* Locontrol in use on Mt Newman Mining railway
* Expensive meals on British trains
* -First Australian built diesel still running well
* - Sydney introduces carpet in its double-deckers
* - NSW adopts Grain containers
* - New miniature steam railway at Blenheim Palace

ARTICLE: Railways and Metrication

ARTICLE: Auckland's modern Southdown Terminal

Book Reviews:

* The Railroad Car Builders Pictorial Dictionary  (Reprint 1974  American)
* 1976 RES Caledar
* Steam Locomotive Prints
* Locomotion  (British)
* Steam Locomotives of the East African railways
* Horse-drawn Days
* The Old NZR C Class Tank Locomotives  (Reprint)
* The Development of Railway Signalling in New Zealand  (reprint)
* Crime on the Lines   (British fiction()

ARTICLE: Weatherproofing the Main Trunk

Letters:

* Lpx wagons seen and log transfers at Waipahi
* Train radios
* Garratt Tank use
* Steam on the main line

ARTICLE:Steam Express - the G Class loco

Modellers Photos:

* Class Uc Bogie Petroleum Tank wagon

Photo: Northbound goods train near Piriaka