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« on: July 10, 2024, 15:20:26 »
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Royal Mail to ditch its train fleet
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« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2024, 15:55:11 »
That's very disappointing news.
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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2024, 16:40:07 »
When we first moved to Nailsea, some 30 years ago, we could hear overnight the distant sounds of the mail train powering along the main line.

It was rather quaint, in a sort of WH Auden way.  Grin
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« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2024, 17:30:41 »
Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on July 10, 2024, 16:40:07
When we first moved to Nailsea, some 30 years ago, we could hear overnight the distant sounds of the mail train powering along the main line.

It was rather quaint, in a sort of WH Auden way.  Grin



Night time trains are even better when they rattle past close-up.  There used to be quite a bit of traffic on the railway overnight - parcels, mail, newspapers, sleeping-car trains, milk tanks and, of course, stone, all used to provide my all-night train set.  Very special to be there overnight in summer with all the windows of the 'box open and the lights out, watching and hearing the trains go by.  The Up sleepers, powering up Brewham, hauled by a D1000 and getting louder by the second, is something that I'll never forget.  Also the sound fading away of anything heading west, down Brewham bank.  Milk empties used to rattle well - but they ran in the daytime

Apologies for being a bit misty-eyed now
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The Networker based fleet of EMU▸ (Electric Multiple Unit)'s is being phased out,
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« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2024, 21:17:43 »
The charges for electricity & maintenance were rising in October, so road becomes cheaper....
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