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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:13:18 +0100, "BH Williams"
<bhwilliams@letra.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"Andrew Clarke" <ajc@cts.canberra.edu.au> wrote in message 
>news:1126852720.644756.96550@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> jeffreybounds@hotmail.com wrote:
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>> Anyone know when and where the last "mixed" ran in the UK? Presumably
>> it was on one of the light lines, like The Mound-Dornoch?
>>
>> Andrew Clarke
>> Canberra
>>
>Far more recent than that!
>Container-carrying sections were attached to the Fishguard boat-trains back 
>in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when I was at school next to the main line in 
>South Wales. In Scotland, mixed trains ran on several lines- those to 
>Mallaig including oil tanks for that town's fishing fleet, whilst there was 
>a later revival when container wagons were attached to trains from 
>Aberdeen/Inverness to Wick.

Some of the old DMUs between Marylebone and Aylesbury used to run with
a GUV or similar hanging off the back at night and ISTR seeing one
towing a tank wagon (presumably carrying diesel) on one occasion.
Another version of "mixed traffic" was carried on the DC line by
loading up one or more passenger compartments on cl501s with mailbags.
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