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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 56

Issue Date: March 1976

Volume and Number: 5/8

Pages: 24

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Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Road v Rail

ARTICLE: Keeping the trains rolling on the Napier Gisborne Line

ARTICLE: More New Wagon Types

ARTICLE: New Minister of railways Interviewed

New Zealand News:

* -Four locos regularly used on one train
* Railway Charges increased
* New rates for Rail-Air
* End of 40 mile Limit?
* Guard's Van contract to Japan
* MSL CTC extended to Temuka
* Rangatira Rates increase
* Last Dx Shipment due soon
* Tenders called for modifying Aratika ferry
* An additional suburban service from Paraparaumu
* Courtesy Award to Guard's Assistant
* Another railcar catches fire
* 15 year old causes derailment
* Package houses railed to Cromwell
* Wellington cable car overhauled
* Senior appointments announced
* Silver Fern damaged in level crossing accident
* Redundant meat wagons scrapped
* L Class Loco restored at Tauranga
* Tenders

  * Renewal of Bridge 171 PNGL
  * Removal of Stockyards at Mangatainoka
  * Underpinning of 4 piers on Clarence Bridge

NZR Freight Traffic Report - September - November 1975

International News

* -New Container service to Freemantle displaces shipping service
* -Bikes at the Station service in Germany
* -Heavy casualties in Bombay from illegal track crossings

Letters:

* Fare increases
* Tourist Pass customer
* Waironomai Tramway
* Derek Cross and Mararoa
* Passenger Services

Book Reviews:

* Grand Old days of Steam
* The Great Way West   (British)
* Locomotive of Australia
* Farewell to the Westerns   (British)
* A History of GWR Goods Wagons   (British))Introducing Derek Cross

Introducing Derek Cross - The Engine that Ran away

Modellers Photos:

* Class M 15ft Lowside Wagon  - Diagram M-1