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Full Name: Rails

Issue Number: 6

Issue Date: January 1972

Volume and Number: 1/6

Pages: 24

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CONTENTS

Editorial: 1972's Challenge

ARTICLE: Tourists flocked to Rotorua by train

ARTICLE: Container wagon Design

ARTICLE: Southerner Locomotive Details

Book review:

 * Rails Out Of The Capital
 * RES 1972 Calendar

ARTICLE Christchurch Trams now restored

ARTICLE: The Last of the Grand Steam Tours of the North Island

International News

ARTICLE: Passenger Services update

 * The Endeavour
 * NIMT Limited

New Zealand News

 * Paekakariki to be eliminated as a stop for the Limited
 * Kingston Flyer previewed
 * French Engineer visits to assess Gas Turbine possibilities 
 * DX arrival delayed
 * Some Freight rates rise
 * Maori Tune on new Railcars
 * Kaimai Loop Named
 * Bridge Contract
 * Ferry launch date set
 * Wagon contract let
 * Automatic Signalling for urupara Branch
 * Silver Star Breaks Even
 * Tenders to be called for Hamilton's new combined bus and train station
 * Station at Wellington's ferry terminal not practical
 * Electric mine loco's arrive from Australia

ARTICLE: The fascinating History of the Castlecliff Line

Letters:

 * DX tractive effort
 * AB 778 paint job

ARTICLE: Greymouth Foundry expands its locomotive production