Railway to Kaitaia? Auckland Station casino, new line inspection vehicle, NIMT electrification switched on, Wellington rail land proposals, Newmarket station development, Carterton...

 This post has a series of fairly random articles from the 1980s on the following topics:

• Mayor of Far North District Council advocating for the railway line from Otiria to Okaihau to be reinstated, and extended to Kaitaia, at an estimated $320m.  Of course this did not proceed, and there are no plans to extend the line past Otiria Junction.
• Proposals from the Railways Corporation to redevelop railway land in Wellington (broadly where the stadium was ultimately built). 
• Property developer's proposal to convert Auckland Railway Station into a casino. This proposal was formalised, but the casino licence for Auckland went to SkyCity and resulted in construction of the Sky Tower.
• Commissioning of the first section of the North Island Main Trunk electrification
• New Suzuki 4WD track inspection vehicles
• Railways Corporation proposes development on land at Newmarket Station (much of that land has been redeveloped)
• Railways Corporation offered to sell Carterton Station to the Carterton District Council