Popular Post montyburns56 Posted August 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2021 Bolton Percy 1980 by KDH Archive 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 On 23/07/2021 at 20:34, roythebus1 said: I may have mentioned it on here before, the first secondman job in 1974I done at Rugby was a parcel train to Crewe. a class 83 9I think) and a single SR utility van. Reminds me of one of my earliest secondmanning jobs at Stonebridge Park in '83, we took an 81 off the SP and picked up a single BG from Brent Yard, took it to Hemel Hampstead, shunted it into the goods shed road and came home light engine. It took nine hours because of a signal failure at Watford! 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted August 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2021 I love the fact that this train contains a single example of each of the four main types of parcel vans in use at this time. York 1978 by KDH Archive 26 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted August 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 3, 2021 Winwick Junction 1970 by KDH Archive 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Chester 1977 by KDH Archive 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted August 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2021 TPO Inverness 1963 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Ravenglass 1987 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2021 Lovely photos, but not parcels trains... The pedants are revolting. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted August 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2021 Parcels go by mail. The peasants pedants are fighting back! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Depends which sort of parcels they are/were: Royal Mail Parcels; or, Railway Parcels. Some trains carried both, and Royal Mail Letters too, carefully segregated, and handled by staff of the respective organisations, but a train conveying only Royal Mail (parcels and/or letters) was a Mail Train, rather than a female one. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 23 hours ago, The Johnster said: Lovely photos, but not parcels trains... The pedants are revolting. Let them eat full brakes. Foxfield 1991 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 22 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Let them eat full brakes. Foxfield 1991 Hi Monty, Would that be a full brake-fest for break-fast ? Gibbo. 1 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted August 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 8, 2021 York 1979 by KDH Archive 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 St Andrews Bank in Birmingham 1985 by Geoff Dowling 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 23 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: St Andrews Bank in Birmingham 1985 by Geoff Dowling The view there now is spoilt by overgrown vegetation and tons and tons of litter! I wonder where the 20s were heading with that single CCT.....? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 That CCT's a GUV methinks? 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 21 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: The view there now is spoilt by overgrown vegetation and tons and tons of litter! I wonder where the 20s were heading with that single CCT.....? The caption says "Curzon Street to Worcester parcels" 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Bootle Junction 1983 by Jjm2009 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 I'm slightly surprised to see the SPV vans on a working from a major terminus. I thought they'd be mostly used for less important parcel trains. Euston 1977 by John Woolley 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2021 They were fine for Class 6 parcels traffic, able to run at 60mph. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 (edited) Reading 1976 Edited August 14, 2021 by montyburns56 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 18 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Plymouth 1976 Reading sir, not Plymouth! The loco is very probably 31 117 or 31 121, Old Oak's pet 'skinheads' 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Reading sir, not Plymouth! The loco is very probably 31 117 or 31 121, Old Oak's pet 'skinheads' Empty 'Papers from the West of England; the ex-LMS brake was branded 'for use on West of England Newspaper Train Only'. My recollection is that the script was in 'Rail Alphabet' but with the typically idiosyncratic GWR- style capitalisation. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 A couple of pics I found lurking in the hard drive.... the first is from an Enparts vehicle.... 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Eastleigh 1990 by Chris Brogdale 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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