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Basil Jet[_4_] · June 13th 17, 04:35 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 2017\06\13 17:03, wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:56:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Thursday, 8 June 2017 22:45:35 UTC+1, Charles Ellson wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 13:42:36 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 10:04:18 on Thu, 8 Jun
2017, d remarked:
Its a shame that what is in effect a national asset has gone to waste. Given
the traffic situation in London there must be some business case for it.

The sorting offices have long been dispersed away from Central London
and well away from the PO railway.

I'm pretty sure, if memory serves me rightly, that the thing that ended the viability of the PO railway was the opening of the major postal distribution hub at Willesden. Some people did suggest extending the POR there, but that was pretty much a non-starter - can you imagine the cost?

No imagination this country , what would be wrong with a bit of mixed
gauge out of Euston.

Since rail ferries carry trains on boats, and Le Shuttle carries cars on
trains, why not have a train-train which carries the PO railway wagons
on mainline gauge flat wagons with narrow gauge rails laid on top of
them? There should be enough paths on the DC lines for them. The only
problem (yes, I did say *only* problem) would be that the mainline
railway runs in the day and is maintained at night whereas the PO
railway ran at night and was maintained in the morning IIRC.

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