One of the additional trains laid on to take spectators to the 2007 Open Golf Championship at nearby Carnoustie. These trains gave a refreshing return to locomotive haulage, if only for 4 days!
Northbound Mail.
1C01 streaking out into the night.
The last 1C01 Travelling Post Office (TPO) from Penzance to Bristol is seen here at Exeter loading mail. Mail trains in the UK are all but a memory now...RIP. Note the homemade headboard by me!
67007 pauses at Reading in the early hours of March 15, 2003 to allow the loading of mail. These travelling post offices, where mail was sorted on the move were withdrawn in Britain in January 200... (more)
