🚀 go-pugleaf

On 16 Sep 2005 16:26:01 -0700, "Chippy" <kev@minimoke.net> wrote:

>Charles Ellson wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>Tail traffic (normally vans of various sorts) was pretty common, and
>those sections wher eit was permitted, together with maximum loads, was
>listed in the sectional appendices.  Your tank wagon may have been a
>milk tank.
>
Not unless there was something drastically wrong with the cattle near
the oil refinery. ;-) I only saw it once, presumably there was an
immediate need for fuel by something that couldn't travel the length
of the line for more go-juice such as one of the shunters. This would
have been in the late 1960s when anyone suggesting delivery of fuel by
road would probably have been shot without trial.

>> Another version of "mixed traffic" was carried on the DC line by
>> loading up one or more passenger compartments on cl501s with mailbags.
>
>The Watford DC line mail workings included a special shunting move from
>Up to Down at Harrow and Wealdstone.  This was necessitated by the
>absence of a platform lift, following the 1952 collision.
>
That was the two or three times a day dedicated postal/parcels trains.
The services I had in mind where those where space was regularly
commandeered on scheduled passenger services. The Harrow platform
lift(s) only "went missing" in more recent years (replaced by an
elevator/chute ?) - I've got a couple of the enamel signs rescued from
the fire when it was dismantled in the 1970s.
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