Issued: October – December 2002
Contents:
- Special issue on Mountain Railways
- Railway Scenery
- The Tateyama Sabo Works Project
- Nagasaki Switchback
- The Sakuradani Light Railway
- Night trains – and how to use them
- The Best Railway in the World? (A swiss view to Japan)
- Japanese Stations (1): Tokyo, Japan’s most famous station
- Japan re-visited 2002 (1)
- JR Locomotive Stock Analysis (1)
- Restaurants (6): Daishoan on the old Tama-den
- Signals (3): Repeater Signal, Runaway Safety Spur, Accidents
- VVVF or the three phase AC electric drive (2)
- Model-In: DD 13 Diesel Locomotive
Front cover: Top: Seto Ohashi bridge, JR Shikoku EMU Okayama – Sakaide, 90 km/h, 15:45 February 1999. Photo by Richard Tremaine. Bottom: Autumn colours of the Shin Etsu line with ‘Asama’ ascending the Usui pass (Usui Toge), 3 November 1996. Train headboard inset indicates Ueno (Tokyo) – Nagano. Through route closed 1997. 489 class EMU and EF63 locos can be boarded at ‘Poppo Town’ museum in Yokogawa. Photo by Minoru Shinozaki.