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Post by melikepie on Jun 21, 2018 10:50:02 GMT
Technically don't freight services still use LU infrastructure around between say Neasden and beyond Amersham?
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Post by peterc on Jun 21, 2018 14:59:41 GMT
The freight facilities at Neasden are all on the west side and reached from the Dudding Hill Line or what is now the main line via Wycombe. Freight through Aylesbury to Calvert goes via Princess Risborough.
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Post by grahamhewett on Jun 21, 2018 18:09:46 GMT
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Post by peterc on Jun 21, 2018 22:13:49 GMT
Looking at the link has brought back a memory of a basket, maybe about 3 or 4 feet tall, for mail on an Underground train. I can't remember where or when, probably 60s or 70s, certainly when the train had a guard. I assume that it was for internal mail rather than Royal Mail.
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Post by grahamhewett on Jun 21, 2018 22:30:54 GMT
peterc - may not have been mail but used tickets on their way to the sorting /audit office at Harrow.
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Post by grahamhewett on Jun 21, 2018 22:34:13 GMT
PS Reminds me of (one of) my favourite timetable footnotes - Cookstown on the GNRI had certain trains that stopped to "Set down laundry".
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jun 22, 2018 6:54:44 GMT
peterc - may not have been mail but used tickets on their way to the sorting /audit office at Harrow. Yes ticket baskets heading to Harrow, carried by first passenger doors near Guards gangway, practice stopped on the District with OPO (4 November 1985). |
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Post by roythebus on Jun 24, 2018 20:23:08 GMT
We carried internal mail on the District and Met in the 1970s (and probably most other lines) in wicker baskets. As has been mentioned before, there was a "sorting office" under the stairs on the our rail atEdgware Road where the two old boys who done the sorting used to have an "extensive library" of "alternative literature which certainly wasn't on LT's publications list! Those old enough will know what I mean. Nudge nudge, say no more.
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Post by revupminster on Jun 24, 2018 21:13:49 GMT
Above Edgware Road was Griffith's House and ticket office's would send a daily cash account of the previous days takings and on Mondays' would also be a weekly cash account. We had colour coded envelopes; pink I think for the cash accounts, brown for non-issued tickets, blue I think for ticket collector's excess sheets.
The station auditor's were based there as well, I think. All the booking clerks dreaded them descending on a ticket office for a spot audit.
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Post by roythebus on Jun 25, 2018 8:07:39 GMT
Yes, the "extensive library" was well hidden.  |
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