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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 55

Issue Date: February 1976

Volume and Number: 5/7

Pages: 24

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Level Crossing Accidents

ARTICLE: By Rail to the Scottish Isles

Book Reviews:

* The Stockton and Darlington Railway
* Forgotten Railways - Chilterns and Cotswolds

Movie Review:

* Bite The Bullet

ARTICLE: Transport Policy In Sweden Part 2

New Zealand News:

* Railing of Mt Davey Coal opposed
* Storm brings Substantial log traffic
* Northerner Luggage Racks - photo
* Palmer Rd Station partial closure
* Pekatahi Station closure 17/11/1975
* Clive Station Closed. Special parcels arrangements
* Poro-o-tarao tunneling starts soon
* T class wagons used for transporting tree seedlings
* Staff trained to use ultrasonic rail flaw detectors
* Hutt Valley Park and Ride annoys locals
* Use rail in the Hutt Valley to save oil
* Kaimai tunnelers strike a petrified forest
* NZR Quiz at Porirua
* NZR's mainframe computer replaced
* No new trains for Wellington in the near future
* New bulk powder containers made in Christchurch

* tenders:

  * new passenger shelter at Ava
  * Two culverts on NIMT
  * Two precast concrete bridge spans for Bridge 65 NIMT

ARTICLE: Semaphore Signals at Invercargill

Report: NZR Passenger Statistics April - Aug 1975

Introducing Derek Cross - The Express and the Hen

International News

* NSW loco a movie star
* New Australian designed non-ferrous brake shoe 
* Australian Train design to be used in Paris

Photo: Hutt workshops Shunt Engine

ARTICLE: Steam Express