The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 11 (March 1, 1929)

Contents

• • [cover]
  • Contents
    • [subsection]
    • N.Z. Railways Magazine
  • [title page]
• • Big Engines
    • [subsection]
    • Heavy Business Anticipated
  • General Manager's Message — Our Administrative Methods
  • Service First — General Manager Enunciates the Railway Problem
    • [subsection]
    • Projected Thinking
    • Social Service Values
  • A Great Event — First Electric Train on Christchurch-Lyttelton Line — Speeches Made On This Historic Occasion
    • [subsection]
    • History of the Railway
    • The Very Early Days
    • The Gauge
    • Symbol of Progress
    • Traffic Development
  • Prime Minister's Speech
    • [subsection]
    • War Delayed Work
    • Could not be Hurried
    • “Not a Pessimist.”
    • Railway Construction
  • Mr. Coates's Speech
  • Our London Letter
    • [subsection]
    • The Container System Of Freight Handling
      • [subsubsection]
      • Articulated Passenger Carriages
      • Utilisation of Pulverised Coal
      • The “Twopenny Tube.”
      • Enterprise of the Irish Railways
      • Progress of German Railways
  • Essay Competition — The Value to the Community of the N.Z. Government Railways
    • Essay by J. Gunn, Std. V., Wataroa School, South Westland
    • Essay by Gwen E. Morris, Class B, Papamoa Native School
    • Essay by Margaret McKenna, Std. VI., Ohauiti School, Tauranga
    • Essay by Leslie Gibb, Luggate School, Central Otago
  • Urupukapuka Island, N. L. — The Deep-Sea Anglers' Rendezvous
  • A Flood of Light — Electricity for Dunsandel Station and Yards
    • [subsection]
    • “Turning on” Ceremony
      • [subsubsection]
      • Too Much a Matter of Course
      • A Progressive People
      • Council Sets Example
      • A Thorough Job
      • Remarkable Progress
      • Out to Give Service
  • The glory of Taranaki — Egmont the World's most Shapely Snow Peak
    • Songs And Folk Lore And Mountain Beauty
      • [subsubsection]
      • Egmont's Rival in the Philippines
      • Early Estimates of Height
      • Their Mountain God
      • The Earth Spirit Personified
      • Mountain, Forest, and Rainfall
      • The Perfect View
      • “Old Egmont Crowns the Land.”
    • Bush Music
    • Climb the Mountains
  • When Children take the Train — Wonder and Romance
  • Queenstown's Carnival — Gaiety On Beautiful Lake Wakatipu — by G. A. Herbert
  • Service that Pleases
  • Current Comments
    • Putting it Plainly
    • “The Most Murderous Invention.”
    • The New Garratt Engines
    • Excursions by Rail
    • European Railway Progress
  • Modern Methods in Our Workshops — Electric Overhead Travelling Cranes — by S. B. Barltrop
  • A Story and Its Moral
  • Rail and Air Transport
  • Random Recollections — by Ken Alexander
    • The Loco Motive
    • Bun-Baiting
    • Riding Round
  • The Tourist League Review
  • Our Magazine
  • Promotions Recorded During January
    • Traffic And Stores Branches
    • Locomotive Branch
  • Joke Wit And Humour
    • Overheard in the Train
    • Some Going
    • Not Very Definite
    • What's in a Name!
    • He Did
    • He Knew
    • Interested
  • Of Feminine Interest
    • Fashion Notes
    • Notes from Paris
    • How to Launder Artificial Silk
    • Smart New Ideas in Trimmings
    • Household Hints
  • By Those Who Like Us
  • Progress of the French Railways
  • Variations In Traffic And Revenue — 1st April, 1928, to 2nd March, 1929—as compared with last year
    • [subsection]
    • Revenue

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Title: The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 11 (March 1, 1929)

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