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mail, parcels and newspapers

Discussion in 'Photography' started by Johnw, Jul 23, 2009.

  1. Johnw

    Johnw Part of the furniture

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    It is a measure of the decline in mail, parcels and newspaper traffic on the railways that in 1976 there were over 5000 non passenger coaching stock vehicles in service for use on this traffic. Today we are left with a few class 325 EMU's. Here are some of those varied 5000 vehicles.

    http://pics-by-john.photoblog.org.uk/c1729919.html
    http://pics-by-john.photoblog.org.uk/
     
    Johnw, Jul 23, 2009
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  2. shredder1

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    nice pictures mate, its a great shame we no longer see these vehicles, I was a fan of the old CTTs and Syphons
     
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