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A notability tag was removed from this page - these tags should not be removed unless the issue is addressed. As it stands, the references are two library catalogue searches, which do not represent significant coverage, and the other sources are from the Rails magazine itself - so are primary sources. Per the tag "Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention". Do this and the tag can be removed. Cheers, Polyamorph (talk) 06:53, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've looked for references to Rails outside of the current citations and found a few; I suspect though that this article should really be about Bob Stott, since he was the editor of rails for its entire existence. Stott has written and contributed to probably more books on New Zealand railways than anyone in the past 50 years so is notable for that reason alone, Rails itself was his doing. --LJ Holden 02:59, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]