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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 59

Issue Date: June 1976

Volume and Number: 5/11

Pages: 24

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Unit Express Service

ARTICLE: New Unitised Service for Small Lots

Railway Commentary - What Hope for Stock by Rail

Report: Railcar protest a Victory

ARTICLE: Te Rapa - NZR's most modern yard

New Zealand News:

* Towing of Railcars being studied
* Lbf Class wagons appearing
* Rapid replacement of NAL bridge
* More level crossings protected with better warning systems
* Branchline Closures Announced:

  * Ngakawau - Seddonville
  * Riverton - Tuatapere
  * Kapuni - Opunake
  * Rakaia - Methven

* Rangiora Workers' train stopped running on 30th April
* Auckland Suburban passenger numbers increase
* The First of the new Buses completed
* End of next year is end of railing livestock
* Ava to get new passenger shelter
* Waikatop farmers Favour Rail for Long-distance stock movements
* Still no progress at Mangaweka
* New Tank wagons tested
* NUR's railcar stance countered
* Reactions to railcar cuts
* Wellington's cablecar news welcomed
* Assistant GM appointed
* Greatford Station closed as an officered Station on 16/03/1976
* Potatoes railed from Manawatu to Wellington
* Tramways Union supports Auckland Rapid transit
* Log trade hampered by lack of ships
* -Miniature Dx in service at Palmerston North's Esplanade railway

Traffic Report - Freight Statistics April - December 1975

ARTICLE: From Perth to Alice

ARTICLE: The Life and Death of a Diesel

Book Reviews:

* Scottish Steam in the 1920's  (Scotland)
* Great Western Steam Around Bristol  (British)
* [[The Story of the Kingston Flyer]
* Steam in Miniature

Movie Review:

* The Bullet Train  (Japan)

International News

* -Monorack planned for NSW Skifields
* NSW takes delivery of the world's first stainless steel Coal wagons
* Danish conference for Railway Esperanto
* -Western Australia used hopper wagons for Woodchips
* -No passengers killed or injured in last 5 years of Australian National Railways

Obituary: Robert Frederick Stevens