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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2008 23:30:50 GMT
Can anyone help, please, in tracing two trains from the Post Office Railway. Several have left the railway since closure in 2003 and can be accounted for at their new locations. However, despite thoroughly checking the railway and all its nooks and crannies, the following are elusive, so must have gone somewhere. I am fairly confident they haven't been scrapped, and certainly not by the railway:
No.22 - 1980 Greenbat car
No.40 - 1930 English Electric car, later renumbered 40.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2008 11:55:01 GMT
Hmmm.. as a Royal Mail employee I wonder if there is any way I can trace how the stock was disposed of.
Slightly o/t, I had a good look around the railway at Mt. Pleasant back at Christmas 1991, when I went as an escort to collect an artic load of incoming foreign mail for the NN area. It was just after 2am and the railway was working flat out to move the Christmas mail.
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Post by upfast on Aug 30, 2008 12:09:20 GMT
Hmmm.. as a Royal Mail employee I wonder if there is any way I can trace how the stock was disposed of. /quote] I reckon anyone putting in a FoI request would find out if they are being "funny" about it. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2008 13:43:42 GMT
DavidH - Thanks for your suggestion but I have been through all remaining Mail Rail records. There aren't many recent records left (in the Royal Mail Archive at Farringdon) and all the car records at Mount Pleasant were (apparently) disposed of around closure time.
upfast - Again, thanks. I am 100% sure nobody is being 'funny' as I have never had problems in getting info. It is whether info now exists (disposal documentation) is the problem, and it probably doesn't.
Other trains disposed of around the same time (I think!) are 37 and 44 (Beeches Light Railway) and 38 and 42 (Launceston Steam Railway), in c.2005. I think 22 and 40 may have departed around this time - but to where ..... ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2008 17:27:44 GMT
The only suggestion I can make is that everything owned by Royal Mail or Post Office has an asset number. Could that be a way forward?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2008 22:37:52 GMT
Mail By Rail, Peter Johnson, Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 0711023859 might shed some light on car info.
I'd quite like to see this system reopened. If not as a PO Railway, perhaps a subterannian cycle route!
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Post by JR 15secs on Aug 31, 2008 17:06:42 GMT
Can anyone help, please, in tracing two trains from the Post Office Railway. Several have left the railway since closure in 2003 and can be accounted for at their new locations. However, despite thoroughly checking the railway and all its nooks and crannies, the following are elusive, so must have gone somewhere. I am fairly confident they haven't been scrapped, and certainly not by the railway: No.22 - 1980 Greenbat car No.40 - 1930 English Electric car, later renumbered 40. When you say all nooks and crannies did that include sidings and lops as I understand some were left in these. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2008 17:54:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2008 18:31:31 GMT
"When you say all nooks and crannies did that include sidings and lops as I understand some were left in these".
Yes, all sidings and loops checked.
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Post by pgb on Sept 3, 2008 15:17:48 GMT
They're not the two vehicles which are at the Launceston Steam Railway in Cornwall. Not sure what number they are, but they are certainly there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2008 14:44:08 GMT
The ones at Launceston are 38 (761) and 42 (ex-806).
Thanks for the thought.
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Post by ianvisits on Sept 6, 2008 9:01:35 GMT
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