LAST POST, THE FINAL DAY OF ROYAL MAIL TRAINS IN THE UK, FILMED AT HEAMIES FARM & BADNALL, 20.9.24
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- The rumour machine is doing overtime with the demise of the Royal Mail trains, class 325 units, in the UK, and sadly this looks to be the end.
Today might well be the very last day of service, so SJ and I went out after work to see the two South bound services just after 5pm.
The four units seen in this film later worked North on what could well be the last ever RM working.
There's a few other trains featured, including a class 70 and thd double headed class 90s.
We hope it is not the end for the 325 units but even if they continue it will only be for a few more days.
Update: this was really the last day. Very sad indeed.
Just glad I made time to see them despite being tired and injured after a grueling week.
And got my son out there to see them, they were his favourite as a small kid.
Another era ended.
Yeah we just got rid of our parcel electric trains but TRUST ME GUYS, the uk will DEFINITELY go carbon neutral by 2050, definitely, getting rid of clean and efficient trains for single diesel HGVs is 100% a environmentally friendly move
Agreed. Makes no sense.
@@StaffsTransportit does from a business point of view
@@ntgtrains6455 coal made sense from a business point of view.
@@StaffsTransport if you were a private company who had the choice to either fork out million of pounds to overhaul a fleet of 15 30 year old trains or get rid of them and move to the much cheaper alternative of road and air transport what would you do? I would do exactly the same as what RM are doing. Why waste money when you don’t need to?
I was so lucky to see the very last one out the window of the Class 390 I was on today.
I didn't see any spotters around, rather sad. Well done for seeing it anyway.
@@StaffsTransport Thank you so much.
Seems so crass stupid to delete that service 🚂
Agreed
I saw one in Crewe today, 21st Sept, it arrived from the north on the track between Pl 11 and Pl 12. Stoped, the driver changed ends, and it went out again in the direction it had come from.
Empty stock move.
Was on a delayed 1510 to MAN at Crewe on Friday 20th and everything had stopped Inc a southbound mail train
I have fond memories as a postman of occasionally meeting the Up Special at Watford in the late 70s. I say occasionally because dozens of postmen from all over Herts, Beds and Bucks and North London waited for a TPO that was invariably 3 or 4 hours late or didn’t arrive at all. We spent most of the time asleep in the Euston passenger coaches. In the 80s I was on duty at Hitchin in the early hours and had the same problem - can’t remember which TPO it was. Happy days.
Nice story, thanks for sharing. A much simpler world back then!
I had no idea today was going to be the last day. I was planning to go to Wembley Central today for a different reason and if I'd stuck around I could have seen it too.
It was only one bloke who told my son otherwise I wouldn't have known.
It was, sadly, the very last day of Royal Mail trains in the UK.
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Fuel seems to be dropping in price currently while big unavoidable electricity consumers like trains look 'risky' in the face of us doing national energy supply all wrong? Seems like utter madness given the direction we're supposed to be heading in. Though I wonder how many rail fans would vote for more rail if the way to get it was to discourage road traffic?
Again.
@@trs4uGiven modern electric trains all come with regen braking - which generates and puts electricity back in to the system - how is electric supposed to be so expensive???
@@andrewbrown6786 I didn't say "more expensive". Regen makes things fractionally more efficient, but not a lot. I'm suggesting that 'the people who make decisions' may not like the way we're going with Variable Renewable Energy and variable pricing. I think that should be fixed as a separate issue, but wonder if the way we're currently going about energy means people are wary of having big electricity-consuming plant which can't be postponed during high price episodes? At the same time people seem to think EV batteries will fix the same problem for road vehicles. It won't, but people can be very certain about what they believe.
I hope that the Class 325 doesn’t go for scrap but to be brought by another bidder who would like to have the Class 325.
The second time the royal mail has stopped using rail, they will be back
Hope so!
Bean counters rule....greed today, sod tomorrow 😮
I saw one of these at floriston
Apparently it's because they didn't want to pay for refurbishment of the 325s
That's very sad
The operator should do that
@@damiendye6623 agreed but they didn't want to 🤷♂️
Just buy new trains or do a Loco hauled set duh 🤷
@welshtrainspottingchannel we would all love loco hauled!
That will increase road traffic and diesel pollution when they want road traffic to go electric
Thing is, unless they can reroute the railways to all the RDCs, then road traffic will be here for ever, electric HGVs are the way forward if everyone desires goods availlable on demand....
@@bernardwright2420 They're absolutely not. It's much better to have freight trains deliver to local stations where last mile delivery can be efficiently done using small vans.
What’s going to happen the class 325s?
@@mattdandex will be offered for sale
Weird they stamped… these out
Lol
Am I having brain-eye-coordination problems or are there two ten-wagon-long rails travelling past after 0:30? Maybe it's a very straight level route.
It does appear so!
Have you ever watched the TH-cam rail laying videos, the rails appear very flexible, so any curves on rail journeys shouldn't pose a problem, just saying...
@@bernardwright2420 we've all had 00 or 0 gauge model railways so I guess it looks impossible. Certainly would need liquorice rails on my Lionel 0 gauge layout.
@@bernardwright2420 I wonder? Trying to imagine them noodly enough to go round bends and over humps while being carried and then stiff enough to bear train loads is hurting my brain.
It is apparently a thing - see a page titled "The logistical challenge of transporting long rails" at voestalpine. Every day's a school day!
I've driven plenty of loaded rail delivery trains like that and it boggles my mind too, the rails will go around any curve the wagons will go around. You stick your head out of the window and look back going round sharp curves or over lots of crossovers and you're like what 😂
And when they're delivered they just drop them down a chute at the back (that train was running in reverse).
I thought they were continuing until the 10th of October
So did I but they pulled the plug early.
@@StaffsTransportThe government should have found a way to keep these trains going, a solution could have been found. Kier Starmer’s Labour government are terrible beyond belief. It was ridiculous to stop mail teains and worse to end them early
@@tcraigh1we should know by now. Kier hates anything quintessentially British. From the culture, the history, the people and everything in-between. This was obvious but they still voted for him and are now surprised that he is destroying the Kingdom.
@@tcraigh1whats it got to do with the government what private companies do , the same private companies the Tories privatised.
Just unbelievable how people are quick at attacking people that have nothing to do with it
I've never actually seen a 325 in service
And now you never will. Unless some company buys any, which is possible.
@@StaffsTransport yeah I wouldn't be surprised if someone keeps one