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Title: The final Mail Train Post by: TaplowGreen on September 21, 2024, 08:54:11 ......ran last night...
https://www.railfreight.com/business/2024/09/20/last-post-no-fanfare-for-great-britains-final-mail-train/?gdpr=accept Title: Re: The final Mail Train Post by: grahame on September 21, 2024, 10:43:25 ......ran last night... https://www.railfreight.com/business/2024/09/20/last-post-no-fanfare-for-great-britains-final-mail-train/?gdpr=accept A short quote from that article ... Quote Bringing an era to an end. Great Britain’s last train serving the Royal Mail is scheduled for today, Friday, 20 September. The National Postal Service is divesting itself of its dedicated fleet of bright red trains. The sidelining of in-house rail operations (in favour of a network of road and air transport) brings to an end a service that has endured for almost two centuries. The purpose-built electric multiple units, which have been carrying letters and parcels for the Royal Mail since 1995, reach the end of the line today. The UK portal service is running its rail service into the buffers. The Royal Mail has put up for sale the fleet of fifteen four-car class 325 EMUs. The organisation is pulling out of its railway operations just as the private sector is gearing up for rail-delivered express logistics. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |